AMERICAN TRICKSTER TRAUMA TRADCB
Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules…
Specifikacia AMERICAN TRICKSTER TRAUMA TRADCB
Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups and family bonds, we revel in the fantasy of the trickster whose energy and cunning knows no bounds and for whom nothing is sacred. One such trickster is Brer Rabbit, who was introduced to North America through the folktales of enslaved Africans. On the plantations, Brer Rabbit, like Anansi in the Caribbean, functioned as a resistance figure for the enslaved whose trickery was aimed at undermining and challenging the plantation regime. Yet as Brer Rabbit tales moved from the oral tradition to the printed page in the late nineteenth-century, the trickster was emptied of his potentially powerful symbolism by white American collectors,
Trickster Drift
Mythical Trickster Figures
Trickster and Hero
Trickster Moorhouse Tom
Son of a Trickster
Trickster: Season 1 DVD
Anansi the Trickster Spider
Return of the Trickster
Trickster: Season 1 BD
Trauma