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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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Publié par	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date de parution	10 février 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781554582907
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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TROUBLING TRICKSTERS
Indigenous Studies Series
The Indigenous Studies Series builds on the successes of the past and is inspired by recent critical conversations about Indigenous epistemological frameworks. Recognizing the need to encourage burgeoning scholarship, the series welcomes manuscripts drawing upon Indigenous intellectual traditions and philosophies, particularly in discussions situated within the Humanities.
Series Editor:
Dr. Deanna Reder (M tis), Assistant Professor, First Nations Studies and English, Simon Fraser University
Advisory Board:
Dr. Jo-ann Archibald (Sto:lo), Associate Dean, Indigenous Education, University of British Columbia
Dr. Kristina Fagan (Labrador-M tis), Associate Professor, English, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee), Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and English, University of Toronto
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TROUBLING TRICKSTERS
REVISIONING CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS
Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra, editors
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Troubling tricksters : revisioning critical conversations / Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra, editors
(Indigenous studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN 978-1-55458-181-8
1. Tricksters-North America. 2. Tricksters in literature. 3. Folk literature, Indian-North America-History and criticism. 4. Indians of North America-Folklore. 5. Indians of North America-Social life and customs. I. Reder, Deanna [date] II. Morra, Linda M. III. Series: Indigenous studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
PS 8089.5. I 6 T 76 2010 398.2089 97 c2009-904028-x
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Troubling tricksters [electronic resouce] : revisioning critical conversations / Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra, editors
(Indigenous studies series)
Includes bibliographical.
Electronic monograph.
Issued also in print format.
ISBN 978-1-55458-205-1
1. Tricksters-North America. 2. Tricksters in literature. 3. Folk literature, Indian-North America-History and criticism. 4. Indians of North America-Folklore. 5. Indians of North America-Social life and customs. I. Reder, Deanna [date] II. Morra, Linda M. III. Series: Indigenous studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
PS 8089.5. I 6 T 76 2010a 398.2089 97
Cover image: Wesakichak5 , by Steve Keewatin Sanderson. Cover design by Martyn Schmoll. Text design by Catharine Bonas-Taylor.
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Contents
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 Smile 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
RIGOUREAU, NAAPI, 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 Caf (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
A PPENDIX I: The Magazine to Re-establish the Trickster , Front Page
A PPENDIX II: Let s Be Our Own Tricksters, Eh
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
DEANNA REDER
Preface
While it is commonly quipped that the Indian is a European invention, 1 that no Indigenous person in North America called themselves Indian before the arrival of Columbus, in much the same way no Indigenous community had tricksters -the term is the invention of a nineteenth-century anthropologist. 2 Instead, the Anishinaabeg told stories about Nanabush, 3 the Cree told stories about Wesakecak, 4 the Blackfoot told stories about Naapi, 5 the St :lM told stories about Coyote, and all these stories continue to be told and retold to this day. That being said, just as many Indigenous people in North America now refer to themselves as Indians, and many storytellers talk and write about tricksters, drawing not only on traditions in which they may or may not have been raised but also on their imaginations and the work of other Native authors.
It has only been since the late 1980s that an infrastructure has been established to publish, distribute, and teach Indigenous fiction in Canada. Literary critics, virtually all non-Indigenous, looked for strategies to discuss this literature. The products of the Canadian education system themselves, many were, not surprisingly, uninformed about basic legal terms (What is a Status Indian? Who qualifies as M tis?) and historical contexts (the Indian Act, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop), never mind the rich and intricate epistemologies and storytelling genres of individual Indigenous nations. One way in which critics sought to begin critical conversations and surmount this lack of background was to draw upon discussions in postmodernism, post-colonialism, and the work in the U.S. on and by Gerald Vizenor. Trickster criticism emerged as one of the first critical approaches for Indigenous literature in Canada, an approach that at one point became so popular that in recent years it has become somewhat of a clich .
This volume seeks to reignite interest in trickster criticism, albeit not the discussions of old. Twenty-first-century trickster criticism is influenced by the recent work of nationalist critics who have called for ethical literary studies that are responsible to Indigenous people and communities. More often than not this requires that scholars identify themselves in relation to their material and to the nation they write about. This means that critics must not only have an understanding of the particular context from which a story emerges but also that they imagine their audience to include Indigenous people, whether as scholars, students, or general community members. 6
It is no exaggeration to state that this volume marks the coming of age for Indigenous literary studies in Canada, an area marked by an awkward absence of Indigenous scholars, reflecting the often poor ability of universities, especially literature departments, to attract and engage Indigenous students. This is not to suggest that the study of Indigenous literatures be limited to Indigenous people, but rather that this absence is somewhat akin to having Women s Studies