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Abstract
This essay examines the use of trickster imagination and the appropriations of trickster mythology by writers from formerly colonised countries as a rich and relevant arsenal of material for their project of cultural transformation and critique. It shows the trickster figure as an ambivalent image and discusses the functions of laughter in trickster imagination. One of the most famously recorded trickster figures is Coyote, the trickster of American Indian mythology (Radin 1972). Coyote is a somewhat unfortunate being.
Recommended Citation
Buettner, Angi, Mocking and farting: Trickster imagination and the origins of laughter, Kunapipi, 31(2), 2009.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss2/11
