Storyteller Summary
Leslie Marmon Silko

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Storyteller Summary

"Storyteller" was first published in the journal Puerto del Sol in 1975, and in 1981 it was collected in a mixed-genre book of the same name. "Storyteller" includes the following mix of genres: short story, poetry, and photography (and many of the poems seem more like stories than poems). The book was well-received, garnering special praise for its effect and statement as a whole. It is hailed as an important literary statement in the way...

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Leslie Marmon Silko Biographies (6)

Leslie Marmon Silko

4,582 words, approx. 16 pages

In a contest of witchery among an assembly of Native American witches, one tells the group about white-skinned people who will come across the ocean. The storyteller explains how the newcomers will "g... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

5,595 words, approx. 19 pages

Even before the publication of her novel Ceremony (1977), Leslie Marmon Silko had become recognized as one of the preeminent figures in what Kenneth Lincoln calls the Native American Renaissance -- t... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

8,022 words, approx. 27 pages

During the early 1970s -- the emergent years of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the "Native American Renaissance" -- Leslie Marmon Silko was perhaps the movement's preeminent writer of short fiction. ... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

7,115 words, approx. 24 pages

Despite that her most successful work is an early one, Leslie Marmon Silko remains a central voice in Native American literature. Her first novel, Ceremony (1977), is taught in colleges and universiti... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

7,410 words, approx. 25 pages

Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the most important writers to emerge from the Native American Renaissance, a period of intense literary productivity by Native Americans that began with the 1968 publicat... Read more

Leslie Silko

1,665 words, approx. 6 pages

Leslie Silko (born 1948) is one of the foremost authors to emerge from the Native American literary renaissance of the 1970s. She blends western literary forms with the oral traditions of her Laguna P... Read more

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