
Coyote in Geiogamah's Coon Cons Coyote and Two-Rivers' Coyote Sits in Judgment
Author(s) -
Raad Kareem Abd-Aun
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of arabic-english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.26
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1680-0982
DOI - 10.33806/ijaes2000.21.1.9
Subject(s) - trickster , mythology , folklore , native american , drama , hopi , character (mathematics) , history , poetry , literature , ethnology , art , archaeology , geometry , mathematics
The trickster is a character that inhabits the myth, folklore, and oral literature of many cultures and civilizations, and it takes many shapes. The coyote is one of the trickster figures in Native American cultures. It is found in oral Native American literatures, and then found its way into Native American literature by modern Native American writers. This paper attempts to shed light on the trickster, Coyote, in Native American drama, an area, in the researcher's opinion, which has received much less attention in comparison to poetry and novel. The paper focuses on two plays, Hanay Geiogamah's Coon Cons Coyote and E. Donald Two-Rivers' Coyote Sits in Judgment.