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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 31 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Tricksters are prevalent in mythologies around the world. From Anansi the Trickster spider to Norse Loki and Japanese Susa-no-wo, the archetype of the Trickster has resonated in storytelling worldwide. Tricksters in African myth are unrepentant troublemakers who are skilled at deception, just as they are in other folkloric traditions around the world.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All cultures have tales of the trickster, a craft creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precius possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. In the original graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner – Children's folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster – a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
xxv, 211 pages 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Few myths have so wide a distribution as the one, known by the name of the Trickster, which we are presenting here. For few can we so confidently assert that they belong to the oldest expressions of mankind. Few other myths have persisted with their fundamental content unchanged. The Trickster myth is found in clearly recognizable form among the simplest aboriginal tribes and among the complex. We encounter it among the ancient Greeks, the Chinese,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
334 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amanda Doucette's cross-Canada charity tour is in for a cold snap when she organizes a winter camping trip for inner-city young people in the stunning setting of the Laurentian Mountains. With a view to bridging cultural divides, she brings along a mixture of Canadian-born and immigrant youth. Trouble begins when two of the teenagers disappear into the wilderness during the night: Luc, a French/English-Canadian with a history of drug use, and Yasmina,...
11) The trickster
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Physical Desc
488 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.
Life is good in Silver, a small town high in the Canadian Rockies. Sam Hunt is a lucky man. With a loving family and an honest income, he has everything he wants.
But beneath the mountains a vile, demonic energy is gathering strength and soon it will unleash its freezing terror upon Silver. In the eye of the storm, one man struggles to bury the private horrors of his childhood. He...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Language
English
Description
Go back to the beginning of world literature to explore what made Homer's traveling hero such a powerful figure. Odysseus's story set the model for countless road narratives, but his character, which is surprisingly sly and resourceful, is unique. Here, follow him on some of his many adventures.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
435 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
56 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Trickster unleashes his exploding bubbles on Central City, Barry Allen, the Flash, has to find a way to defuse the situation, even though he is trapped in a special friction-free glass bubble.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New from celebrated poet and performer Anne Waldman--a witty, visionary collection that meditates on gender, existence, passion, and protest. How do we investigate the psyche of our playful resistance to assumptions and norms through poetry? What mischief can we invoke as purveyors of a future feminism, its ambiguity, and power? In her new collection, Trickster Feminism, Anne Waldman looks to the imagination of mercurial possibility, to the spirits...
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