Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race

Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature. But what if the trickster is an African American female? This book examines this figure as delineated in the writings of: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison. The black female trickster subverts hegemonic discourse and emerges as a victim who refuses victimization.