The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art

by Allan J. Ryan

Over the last 15 years, a select group of professionally trained andpolitically astute Canadian artists of Native ancestry has produced acompelling body of work that owes much of its power to a wry and ironicsense of humour rooted firmly in the oral tradition. More than acritical/political strategy, such humour reflects a widespread culturaland communal sensibility embodied in the mythical Native AmericanTrickster. This book explores the influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774807040
• ISBN13: 9780774807043
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 8.5" x 1.0"