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By Jay Winston (Contribution by), Jeanne Campbell Reesman (Editor), Lawrence I. Berkove (Contribution by), R. Bruce Bickley Jr. (Contribution by), Houston A. Baker Jr. (Contribution by), William G. Doty (Contribution by), Nancy Alpert Mower (Contribution by), Sandra K. Baringer (Contribution by), Sacvan Bercovitch (Contribution by), Gail Jones (Contribution by), Debbie López (Contribution by), Claudia Gutwirth (Contribution by), María DeGuzmán (Contribution by), Lewis Hyde (Contribution by)

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At once criminal and savior, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. As Margaret Atwood observed, trickster gods "stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands; they operate where things are joined together and, thus, can also fall apart." A shaping force in American literature, trickster has appeared in such characters as Huckleberry Finn, Rinehart, Sula, and Nanapush. ...