What is it about?
The article challenges the habitual acceptance that any contrarian is automatically fighting authority. Often the opposite is true, reinforcing authority by mocking those with less money, social power, or cultural clout.
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Why is it important?
The trickster shifted from an insight in the 1960s into a cliche, and requires more than cliched repetition.
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This page is a summary of: The Trickster as Academic Comfort Food, The Journal of American Culture, March 2002, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1542-734x.00003.
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