Table of Contents:
  • 'We wear the mask' : Sui Sin Far as one example of trickster authorship / Annette White-Parks
  • Maria Cristina Mena : turn-of-the-century La Malinche, and other tales of cultural (re)construction / Tiffany Ana López
  • 'A second tongue' : the trickster's voice in the works of Zitkala-Sa / Jeanne Smith
  • Manifest dentistry, or teaching oral narrative in 'McTeague' and Old Man Coyote / Eric Anderson
  • Goophering around : authority and the trick of storytelling in Charles W. Chesnutt's 'The conjure woman' / Julia B Farwell
  • Reinventing trickster : Creek indian Alex Posey's nom de plume, Chinnubbie Harjo / Alexia Kosmider
  • Cross-dressing and cross-naming : decoding Onoto Watanna / Yuko Matsukawa
  • Mourning Dove, trickster energy, and assimilation-period native texts / Alanna Kathleen Brown
  • Reading trickster; or, theoretical reservations and a Seneca tale / Karen Oakes
  • Spies in the enemy's house : folk characters as tricksters in Frances E W Harper's 'Iola Leroy' / Lynda Koolish