The female trickster : the mask that reveals
Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: xiv, 290 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415385305
- 041538530X
- 9780415385312
- 0415385318
- HQ1122 .T36 2007
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | HQ 1122 TAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 03/04/2024 | 0013889 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
Pt. I. Introducing the female trickster -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Meetings with remarkable women -- 3. Location, location, location -- Pt. II. Calling upon the ancestors -- 4. Imagination and metaphor -- 5. Where have all the virgins gone? -- 6. Law and the imagination -- 7. From the madwomen in the attic to mainstream and mysterious : a brief and highly selective history of literature and literary theory as it relates to the female trickster -- Pt. III. Honoring the traditions -- 8. The traditional trickster -- 9. Humor : Eros using Logos -- Pt. IV. Re/storation -- 10. Women are funny -- 11. The postmodern female trickster -- 12. Blanche White, re/storation agent -- 13. New sightings, Sex and the city -- 14. Conclusion : the divine comedy of being.
"Ricki Stefanie Tannen explores the psychological aspects of what happened when women's imagination was legally and psychologically enclosed millennia ago and demonstrates how the re-emergence of Trickster energy through the female imagination has the radical potential to effect a transformation of western consciousness. Examples are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from Jane Austen, and female sleuth narratives, to Madonna and Sex and the City, illustrating how Trickster energy is used not to maintain power and control but to integrate and unite the paradoxical through humor."--Jacket.