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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

by Lewis Hyde

Trickster figures as makers and disruptors

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Trickster figures as makers and disruptors

Lewis Hyde connects trickster stories from several traditions—including those of Hermes, Eshu, Krishna, and Coyote—with the lives and work of artists and cultural figures such as Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. This comparative structure treats mythology not as a closed archive, but as a way to examine recurring forms of mischief and creative disruption in later cultural work. The book’s subject spans folklore, art, and cultural criticism, giving its exploration of the trickster a broad historical and cross-cultural frame. This edition also includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in trickster mythology across cultures
  • Readers exploring connections between folklore and modern art
  • Readers of cultural criticism focused on creativity and disruption

Themes

Trickster mythologyCreative imaginationMischief and disruptionFolklore and cultural criticism

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Book overview

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories--Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others--and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World--authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style--has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.

This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

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