11-08-2010, 12:00 AM
The Monkey King shouldn’t be cute. He’s a raging id,
a shameless and dangerous trickster. He embodies Lewis Hyde’s
definition of the trickster as “ridden by lust” and driven by
“hyperactive sexuality.”
“Monkey…bears traces of an older lusty beast whose hungers might lead Ghandi himself to buy a gun,” Hyde writes in Trickster Makes This World. “In short, trickster is a boundary-crosser.”~Tales of the Golden Monkey: Terada's Monkey King brought to life
a shameless and dangerous trickster. He embodies Lewis Hyde’s
definition of the trickster as “ridden by lust” and driven by
“hyperactive sexuality.”
“Monkey…bears traces of an older lusty beast whose hungers might lead Ghandi himself to buy a gun,” Hyde writes in Trickster Makes This World. “In short, trickster is a boundary-crosser.”~Tales of the Golden Monkey: Terada's Monkey King brought to life