tricksterism

English

Etymology

From trickster +‎ -ism.

Noun

tricksterism (uncountable)

1. The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
2. The philosophical position of being a trickster.
   • 2001, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, page xv:

     Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the de- humanizing experience people encountered as slaves.