Trickster Articles

Here are two important articles on the Trickster. I will reference both of these tomorrow. As you will see, much has been said about the cultural and spiritual significance of this wily figure. You can find both of these in the Ramsey Library research database JSTOR:

ARTICLE ONE (Vizenor, a very important American Indian theorist and expert on the trickster)

Trickster Discourse
Author(s): Gerald Vizenor
Reviewed work(s):
Source: Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, Native American Literatures (Spring, 1989), pp. 2-7
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1409216


ARTICLE TWO (important article on the sacred nature of the trickster)

Trickster: Shaman of the Liminal
Author(s): Larry Ellis
Reviewed work(s):
Source: Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 55-68
Published by: University of Nebraska Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20736767