Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction

Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction

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  Smith, Jeanne Rosier ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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