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In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been revisited through the centuries from a host of disparate angles. Throughout their wanderings, picaresque antiheroes are dragged into debates on the credibility of historical facts, gender mystifications, rational thinking, or any simplistic definition of the outcast. Referring to a corpus of eight contemporary novels, the author retraces a textual legacy linking the traditional picaresque to its recent descendants, with the main purpose of identifying the way picaresque novels offer a privileged insight into our sceptical times. Cover illustration by Eugene Ivanov 'Night Airing', 2007.

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Heroes in literature. --- Heroes --- Tricksters in literature. --- Tricksters --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Trickster in literature --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling --- Folklore. --- Heroes in literature --- Tricksters in literature --- 82.04 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's

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Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005), includes only a brief mention of the trickster, with skeptical commentary. And, in 2007, Anishinaabe scholar Niigonwedom Sinclair (a contributor to this volume) called for a moratorium on studies of the trickster irrelevant to the specific experiences and interests of Indigenous nations. One of the objectives of this anthology is, then, to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critic?s responsibility to communities, and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts. The contribution of Troubling Tricksters, therefore, is twofold: to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna, and to propose new approaches to trickster studies, approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists? call for cultural and historical specificity.

Indiens d'Amerique --- Litterature populaire indienne d'Amerique --- Tricksters dans la litterature. --- Tricksters --- Indians of North America --- Folk literature, Indian --- Tricksters in literature. --- Trickster in literature --- Indian folk literature --- Indian literature --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Folklore. --- Histoire et critique. --- Social life and customs. --- History and criticism. --- Customs

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The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-soviet tricksters, including such "cultural idioms" as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Shtirlitz, and others. The steadily increasing charisma of Soviet tricksters from the 1920's to the 2000's is indicative of at least two fundamental features of both the soviet and post-soviet societies. First, tricksters reflect the constant presence of irresolvable contradictions and yawning gaps within the soviet (as well as post-soviet) social universe. Secondly, these characters epitomize the realm of cynical culture thus far unrecognized in Russian studies. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920's to the 2000's.

Russian fiction --- Tricksters in literature. --- Tricksters in motion pictures. --- Trickster in literature --- Tricksters --- Motion pictures --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Popular culture --- Popular culture. --- Tricksters. --- 1900-1999. --- Russia (Federation). --- Soviet Union. --- Sociolinguistics --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- literature --- Soviet culture

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In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, the book examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression. Works discussed in this book include Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1795), Elizabeth Hart Thwaites's "History of Methodism" (1804), Anne Hart Gilbert's "History of Methodism" (1804), and Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself (1831). Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom, The Trickster Comes West relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.

Caribbean literature (English) --- American literature --- Black people --- Pan-Africanism in literature. --- Slave narratives --- Tricksters in literature. --- African diaspora in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Race identity --- America --- Civilization --- African influences. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Trickster in literature --- Autobiography --- Slaves' writings --- Black persons --- Blacks --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Caribbean literature --- Africa --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons' writings --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Littérature caribéenne --- Littérature américaine --- Noirs --- Esclavage --- Africains --- Amérique --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Ethnicité --- Dans la littérature --- À l'étranger --- Civilisation --- Etats-Unis --- Influence africaine --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Littérature caribéenne --- Littérature américaine --- Amérique --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Ethnicité --- Dans la littérature --- À l'étranger