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Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race - Black Female Trickster's Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature (Paperback, New edition)
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Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race - Black Female Trickster's Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature (Paperback, New edition)
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Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules' breakers, crude
creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as
recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with
time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the
canon is replete with tricksters who throw dust in the eyes of
their dupes and end up victoriously. But what if the trickster is
African American? And a female? And an African American female?
This book limits the focus to this figure as delineated in the
writings of: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde and Toni
Morrison. The black female trickster's battles provoke unique
strategies of tricksterism. Her liminal positionality is
distinguished for she occupies myriad peripheries in terms of
class, race and gender; in addition to her social oppressions, and
carrying within a legacy of African spirituality and an
excruciating history of slavery. The black female trickster
subverts hegemonic discourse individualistically; through tricks,
she emerges as a victim who refuses victimization, disturbs the
status quo and challenges many conventions.
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