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Peer reviewedBallinger, Franchot – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2000
Native American trickster stories teach lessons about inappropriate social behavior or roles through satire. Frequent targets of such lessons are gender relations, expectations, and transgressions, most notably male licentiousness. Lessons concerning inappropriate female behavior may be conveyed through female trickster stories, found mainly in…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Studies, Literary Devices, Nonformal Education
Peer reviewedBallinger, Franchot – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1984
Emphasizes that a Native American literature course is best taught as a criticism of the literature, not as ethnography. Outlines a literature course covering: (1) principles of the oral tradition; (2) tribal experiences in the oral tradition; (3) Native American biography/autobiography; and (4) contemporary American Indian writers. (JHZ)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies, American Indians, Biographies
