Trickster Tactics: A Festschrift in Honor of Peter Nazareth

by Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Editor), S.G. Ellerhoff

Comprising contributions from writers, scholars, friends, and former students around the world, think of this anthology as being a steaming pot of Gumbo Ya-Ya: simultaneously a dish so delicious it makes you shout and a situation where everybody is talking at the same time — in this case about our collective appreciation, admiration, respect, and love for Professor Peter Nazareth.

PETER NAZARETH (born in 1940 in Uganda) is a critic and writer of fiction and drama. He was educated at Makerere University in Uganda, where he was born, and the University of Leeds, in England. Earlier Professor and Chair of African American World Studies, Nazareth retired in 2021 as Professor of English from the University of Iowa in the United States, where he also worked as Advisor to the International Writing Program. His literary criticism has been enriched by his trenchant observations of the literatures of diverse global migrants, spanning Asian, African, Caribbean, European, and Black American cultures and histories. Nazareth’s work has also been translated into ten languages. He traces his roots to the Goan village of Moira (Bardez).

181 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2021

About the author

STEVE GRONERT ELLERHOFF holds a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Mole (Reaktion Books, 2020), Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (Routledge, 2016), Tales From the Internet (2015), and Time's Laughingstocks (2013), and co-editor of George Saunders: Critical Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family (Routledge 2020). Currently he is writing Jung and the Mythology of Star Wars and a novel. Links to his published stories can be found on his website. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.