Troubling Tricksters

Revisioning Critical Conversations
Herausgeber: Reder; Morra, Linda M

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781554581818
• ISBN-10: 1554581818
• Artikelnr.: 27010203

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Table of Contents for
Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, edited by Deanna
Reder and Linda M. Morra
Preface Deanna Reder
A Preface: Ruminations About Troubling Tricksters Linda Morra
Looking Back to the "Trickster Moment"
What's the Trouble with the Trickster? An Introduction Kristina Fagan
Trickster Reflections: Part I Niigonwedom James Sinclair
The Trickster Moment, Cultural Appropriation, and the Liberal Imagination
in Canada Margery Fee
The Anti-Trickster in the Work of Sheila Watson, Mordecai Richler, and Gail
Anderson-Dargatz Linda Morra
Raven
Why Ravens Smile to Little Old Ladies as They Walk By Richard Van Camp
Gasps, Snickers, Narrative Tricks, and Deceptive Dominant Ideologies: The
Transformative Energies of Richard Van Camp's "Why Ravens Smil to Little
Old Ladies as They Walk By ..." and/in the Classroom Jennifer Kelly
A Conversation with Christopher Kientz Linda Morra
Personal Totems Sonny Assu
Rigoreau, Nappi, and Wesakecak
Dances with Rigoureau Warren Cariou
Naapi in My World Eldon Yellowhorn
Sacred Stories in Comic [Book] Form: A Cree Reading of Darkness Calls
Deanna Reder
Coyote and Nanabush
"Coyote Sees the Prime Minister" and "Coyote Goes to Toronto" Thomas King
Excerpt from Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and
Spirit Jo-ann Archibald
(Re)Nationalizing Naanabozho: Anishinaabe Sacred Stories, Nationalist
Literary Criticism, and Scholarly Responsibility Daniel Morley Johnson
Quincentennial Trickster Poetics: Lenore Keeshig-Tobias's "Trickster Beyond
1992: Our Relationship" (1992) and Annharte Baker's "Coyote Columbus Cafe"
(1994) Judith Leggatt
Trickster Reflections: Part II Niigonwedom James Sinclair
Telling Stories Across Lines
Processual Encounters of the Transformative Kind: Spiderwoman Theatre,
Trickster, and the First Act of "Survivance" Jill Carter
Diasporic Violences, Uneasy Friendships, and The Kappa Child Christine
Kim
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation": History, Story, and the Cant of
Authenticity Thomas King
Appendices
Appendix I: The Magazine to Re-establish the Trickster, Front Page
Appendix II: Let's be Our Own Tricksters, Eh Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
Copyright Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Index
Contributors' Biographies
Jo-ann Archibald (Sto:lo) is the Associate Dean for Indigenous Education at
the University of British Columbia and the Acting Director of the Native
Indian Teacher Education Program. She has recently released Indigenous
Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit (2008).
Sonny Assu (Laich-kwil-tach) received his BFA from the Emily Carr Institute
of Art and Design in 2002 and his certificate in Multimedia Studies from
UBC in 2004. He has held solo exhibits at Equinox and the Belkin Satellite
Gallery and group exhibits at several galleries.
Warren Cariou (Métis) is the Canada Research Chair in Narrative, Community
and Indigenous Cultures at the University of Manitoba, where he also
directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. He has published
fiction, nonfiction, and criticism dealing mainly with Métis culture.
Jill Carter (Anishinaabekwe) is completing her dissertation, Repairing the
Web: Spiderwoman's Grandchildren Staging the New Human Being at the
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (University of Toronto). She has
published in Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme: Indigenous
Women in Canada (26. 3,4) and Stanislavsky and Directing: Theory, Practice
and Influence (Legas, 2008).
Kristina Fagan (Labrador-Métis) is an Associate Professor at the University
of Saskatchewan and specializes in Aboriginal writing and storytelling in
Canada. She has published articles on methodology in the study of
aboriginal literature and on the depiction of aboriginal people in
settler-Canadian literature. Her current research is on autobiography and
storytelling among her people, the Labrador Métis. She is also increasingly
interested in oral traditions and the ways in which the study of such
traditions challenge our usual methods of literary analysis.
Margery Fee is a Professor of English at the University of British
Columbia. She has been specializing in post-colonial studies, particularly
in the comparison of Indigenous literatures in Australia, New
Zealand-Aotearoa, and Canada, since the early 1990s. Recently she has been
writing about racializing narratives associated with the "'Aboriginal'
thrifty gene." She is the editor of Canadian Literature.
Daniel Morley Johnson is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the
University of Alberta, where he has taught courses in the Faculty of Native
Studies. He has also taught at Maskwachees Cultural College in Hobbema. His
dissertation is a Cree literary history. Johnson is a graduate of the
Aboriginal Studies program at the University of Toronto.
Jennifer Kelly teaches in the International Indigenous Studies Program at
the University of Calgary. Her interests include Indigenous Literatures and
Interpretive/Pedagogical Practices, Indigenous Film, and Research Ethics.
She is co-coordinator (with Delia Cross Child, Ramona Big Head, and
Georgette Fox) of "You May Laugh": Surviving, Remembering, and Transforming
Residential School Experience, with members of the Kainai Nation, Southern
Alberta.
Chris Kientz (Cherokee) traces his Native ancestry back to the Eastern
Cherokee nation of Tennessee and the Dawes Rolls. He has worked as an
independent producer and animator, developing multimedia projects for
commercial clients in both Canada and the United States for over ten years.
He has scripted, produced, and directed award-winning video, animation,
interactive media and web sites for numerous clients. Growing up among the
Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi people of New Mexico gave Chris a great respect for
North American Aboriginal Art and Culture. Raven Tales represents the
culmination of this interest.
Christine Kim is an Assistant Professor in the department of English at
Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North
American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and
diasporic writing. She has recently published articles in Open Letter,
Studies in Canadian Literature, and Asian Canadian Writing Beyond
Autoethnography (WLU Press, 2008). She is currently working on a
book-length project titled From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The
Cultural Politics of Asian Canadian Writing and is co-editing a collection
of essays called Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity.
Thomas King (Cherokee) is a Professor of Native literature and Creative
Writing at the University of Guelph. He is renowned for writing such novels
as Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water. He gave the 2003 Massey
Lecture, "The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative."
Judith Leggatt is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at
Lakehead University. She teaches postcolonial, First Nations, Canadian, and
women's literatures and has published articles on Lee Maracle, Salman
Rushdie, and postcolonial pedagogy. Her present research interests include
the representations of dirt and disease in First Nations literature, and
the intersections of science fiction and postcolonialism.
Linda Morra, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's
University, specializes in Canadian Studies/Literature with a particular
focus on twentieth-century Canadian writers. Her publications include a
book of the letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth (Corresponding Influence
, 2006), an anthology about Marshall McLuhan (At the Speed of Light There
is Only Illumination, 2004), and essays about Tomson Highway, Jack Hodgins,
and Mordecai Richler.
Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor
in Simon Fraser University's First Nations Studies Program and Department
of English. Her main fields of study are Indigenous literary theories and
autobiography theory with a particular focus on Cree and Métis life
writing. She has recently published on Edward Ahenakew in Studies in
Canadian Literature and was recently appointed series editor for the
Aboriginal Studies series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Steve Sanderson (Cree) is a member of the James Smith Cree Nation.
Sanderson is currently located in Vancouver where he works as an animator.
The front cover image for Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical
Conversations as well as the front cover image for the WLU Press
Fall/Winter 2009 Catalogue is from his comic book entitled Darkness Calls
distributed by The Healthy Aboriginal Network.
Niigonwedom James Sinclair (Anishinabe) is a graduate of the Native
American Literatures program at the University of Oklahoma and is currently
a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the University of British
Columbia. His dissertation is an Anishinaabeg literary history. He is
originally from Ste. Peter's (Little Peguis) Indian Reserve in Manitoba.
His creative work has appeared in Prairie Fire and Tales from Mocassin
Avenue: An Anthology of Native Stories, while his critical work will appear
in two anthologies in 2009 and 2010. He also writes a monthly column
entitled "Birchbark Bitings" in Urban NDN, Manitoba's monthly alternative
Native newspaper.
Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from Fort
Smith, NWT, Canada. A graduate of the En'owkin International School of
Writing, the University of Victoria's Creative Writing BFA Program, and the
Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia,
Richard currently teaches creative writing with an Aboriginal focus at the
University of British Columbia. His novel, The Lesser Blessed, will soon be
a movie with First Generation Films. Director, Kelvin Redvers, has now
completed the film adaptation of Richard Van Camp's short story, "firebear
called them faith healers," with Cross Current Productions and will be
screening the film at various film festivals internationally. Richard's new
collection of short stories, The Moon of Letting Go, will be released in
2009 and his new novel, Blessing Wendy, will be published in 2010.
Eldon Yellowhorn (Piikani) is an Associate Professor in archeology and the
program chair in First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Currently he is working toward defining the tenets and objectives of
indigenous archaeology and examining its contributions to archaeological
theory.