as ultimate trickster, 116, 167 The Winter’s Tale, 188, 198 Shamanism (Eliade), xv shape-shifting, 91, 112, 114, 117, 138 Shaw, Lemeul, Jr., 20, 36 Shelley, Mary, 71 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 64 Sindbad cleverness of, 213–214, 215, 217 invoking of Allah, 215–216, 217 memory of, 213 shipwrecks of, 211, 215 story-within-story and, 211, 215 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 230 Green Knight in, 236 King Arthur’s court in, 230, 236 Sir Gawain in, 229–230 situation-inventor, 105 Smoke Signals (movie), 11 Snyder, Gary, 140 solipsism, 94 Song of Solomon (Morrison), 180 Sot-Weed Factor (Barth), 20 Spann, Meno, 102 Spillane, Mickey, 11 Spire, The (Golding), 65 Spivak, Gayatri, 91 Stallman, R.W., 102 stand-up comedy, 9–18 Stein, Gertrude, 18, 138 Steinbeck, John, 11 Stephen, Sir Leslie, 152 Stoppard, Tom, 159–168 Strachey, Lytton, 152–153 subaltern, 91, 99 subversion of authority, tricksters and, 234 Summer of Black Widows, The (Alexie), 15 Sundquist, Eric J., 221 Swinford, Dean, 229–242 Index 251 T Tar Baby (Morrison), 169–178, 183, 184 blind race of people in, 172, 174 early edition, narrative, 171 Eloe, Florida in, 170, 173, 175– 176 “Isle de Cevaliers” in, 170, 172, 173, 176 motifs in, 172, 177 Napoleonic Code and, 172 narrative, 177 ‘tar baby’ name/archetype, 176, 177–178 two versions of, 172–173 “two views” in, 171–172 Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 187–208. See also Prospero action, course of, 199, 200, 202, 206 celebrated passage in, 208 characters driven by tempest, 202 explanatory criticism of, 190 fairy tale and, 188, 191 good/evil struggle in, 203–204 heterogenous elements in, 198 moral dominion and, 191 nature, mysterious powers of, 191, 202–203, 204 poetical world and, 192, 193 reality and, 188–189, 190, 191, 192 restlessness and, 200–201, 203, 206 romance/marriage in, 195, 196, 197 script of, 202, 205, 206 shipwrecked crew in, 198–199, 203 storms in our lives, 205–206 unity in, 205
252 Th ousand and One Nights, A, 209–218 Burton’s translation of, 209 central frame story of, 210, 211, 215 narrative, 210, 214 traveling/ethnology and, 211–217 Th ree Guineas (Woolf ), 151 Tidwell, Paul, 90–91 time, 154–155 clock time, 154 psychological time, 154, 155, 156 To the Lighthouse (Woolf ), 151 To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (Sundquist), 221 Toffl er, Alvin, 142 traveling, tricksters and, 138, 211–217 Treatise of the Epick Poem (Bossu), 121 Trial, Th e (Kafka), 101 trick-playing/deception, 114 Trickster Makes this World (Hyde), 212 trickster paradox, 93 Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), xv Trojan Horse, xv Trudell, John, 17 Turner, Victor, 98 Twain, Mark, 139, xv Th e Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Th e, 1–8 as greatest trickster, 8 Th e Mysterious Stranger, 20 Tytell, John, 144 U Ulrici, Hermann, 187–208 ultimate trickster, 8, 116, 157, 167 Ulysses, 121–136. See also Odysseus art of dissimulation and, 131, 135 Uncle Remus (Harris), 219–228. See also Brer Rabbit Index His Songs and Sayings, 222 narrative, 224, 227 narrative trickery in, 222–223, 227, 228 oppressed peoples and, 225 phrasing/racial overtones, 226 power/abuses of power, 226–227, 227–228 race relations and, 224–225 racial stereotypes and, 220 “Th e Wonderful Tar-Baby Story,” 222 universal archetype, trickster as, 110 V V. (Pynchon), 20 Velie, Alan R., 90, 91, 92 Victorian era, 152, 154, 155, 156 Vizenor, Gerald, 11, 91 Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, 33, 121 Vonnegut, Kurt, 18 Vorticism, 13 Voyage Out, Th e (Woolf ), 151 W Wake and Resurrection, Th e (Ringgold), 184 Warde, Frederick, 77–87 Warner, Marina, 238 Waste Land, Th e (Eliot), 70 Waves, Th e (Woolf ), 151 Weintraub, Stanley, 71, 74 West, Nathanael Day of the Locust, 20 “White Men Can’t Drum” (Alexie), 15 Whitman, Walt, 10, 16, 18, 141–142 “Wife of Bath’s Tale, Th e” (Chaucer), xv, 229–242
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