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The essay looks at the role of the trickster in oral literature and argues that the trickster is neither male nor female. The essay argues that the trickster is androgynous and it is this concept that makes the trickster able to outwit the larger and more powerful creatures in the tales. As such, the essay makes a point that the trickster's success at outwitting animals in folklore has nothing to do with it being male!
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- Wazha Lopang (Author), 2013, Laughing with Caution. Ikalanga Trickster Tales and the Gender Question, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/266741
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