Over the last 15 years, a select group of professionally trained and politically astute Canadian artists of Native ancestry has produced a compelling body of work that owes much of its power to a wry and ironic sense of humour rooted firmly in the oral tradition. More than a critical/political strategy, such humour reflects a widespread cultural and communal sensibility embodied in the mythical Native American Trickster. This book explores the influence of this comic spirit on the practice of various artists through the presentation of a 'Trickster discourse, ' that is, a body of overlapping and interrelated verbal and visual narratives by tricksters and about trickster practice
- ISBN10 0774856319
- ISBN13 9780774856317
- Publish Date 1 November 2007 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Postponed Indefinitely
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 320
- Language English