Trickster in the Land of Dreams

by Zeese Papanikolas

Book Overview

Zeese Papanikolas forges seemingly disparate events and movements in western history--including some of its strangest and most exotic strains--into a coherent whole by examining them against the laughter and wisdom of Shoshonean trickster tales. Seen against these tales, the West becomes both a canvas for the projection of utopian dreams and the site of their shattered remains. Papanikolas undertakes a dramatic retelling of Shoshoni creation stories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803287542
• ISBN13: 9780803287549
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

trickster

I loan this book out alot, as it often makes its way into conversation. A history of the miniature empires that have made their clumsy way through the land of the Shoshone people as seen by Coyote, their jester and creator (the two could hardly be mutually exclusive). Miniature empires collapsing just as they've made their plans to conquer the land. Scholarly, cynical, and irreverent, and full of great stories and poetically written.