tricksterism en · NOUN
Etymology
From trickster + -ism.
Meanings
- (uncountable) The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
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(uncountable) The philosophical position of being a trickster.
Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the dehumanizing experience people encountered as slaves.
2001, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, page xv: