Trickster Tales

Rosedale Heights School of the Arts Virtual Library / Literary Reference Centre

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• Trickster Book List

Websites & Articles

• Canadian Encyclopedia / "Trickster"

• Encyclopaedia Britannica / "Trickster Tale"

• "There is No Box: Tricksters in Literature"

• "Unsettling Fictions: Disrupting Popular Discourses and Trickster Tales in Books for Children"

• Blog: "T is for Trickster Women" / Google Books: Scheherazade's Sisters

• NPR Podcast: "Bugs Bunny: The Trickster, American Style"

• Thesis paper: "Identifying and Mapping the Female Trickster"

• "Trickster tropes: female storytelling and the re-imagination of social orders in four nineteenth-century southern African communities."

• "The Trickster Archetype in Storytelling"

• Jung's Four Archetypes (audio reading of the chapter on Trickster)

• Jewish Storytelling / Types of Narratives - Trickster

• Book Review: "Bryan Wagner on a controversial folktale: The Tar Baby"

Videos: Tricksters in Literature