tricksterism
nounEtymology From trickster + -ism.
1
The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
2
The philosophical position of being a trickster.
- Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the dehumanizing experience people encountered as slaves.2001, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, page xv: