Review: Stefanie Tannen. The Female Trickster: The Mask that Reveals, Post-Jungian and Postmodern Psychological Perspectives on Women in Contemporary Culture.

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The increasing scholarly attention on the manifestation of tricksters in postmodern fictive narratives indicates the figure's significance as a motif and stylistic novelty. Among those who have contributed valuable insights into this topic are Jeanne Rosier Smith and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Tannen's book supplements this growing body of literature in its creative and passionate accommodation of interdisciplinary perspectives. Although Hyde's article "Where are the Women Tricksters?", included in Reesman's volume, indicates that female tricksters are less prevalent in contemporary times, Tannen proclaims: "A female Trickster is among us. She stands visible at the crossroads of feminism, humor, depth, psychology and postmodernism, ready for us to unpack her bag of multiple meanings" (3).