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Leslie Marmon Silko Biography (6)

Leslie Silko

1,666 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

Leslie Marmon Silko

4,557 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

5,581 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

7,857 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

7,126 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

7,457 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

Essays & Analysis (14)

Critical Essay by Kate Shanley Vangen

4,230 words, approx. 15 pages

In the following essay, Vangen contends that in “Storyteller” Silko utilizes a new discursive system, which implicitly illustrates how the old colonialist culture's discursive sys... Read more

Critical Essay by Toby C. S. Langen

7,363 words, approx. 25 pages

In the following essay, Langen explores the organization and the interconnectedness of the pieces in Storyteller. In creating Storyteller, Leslie Marmon Silko has employed a silent, tangible object us... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert M. Nelson

9,386 words, approx. 32 pages

In the following essay, Nelson contrasts the use of the Laguna oral tradition in Storyteller, Ceremony, and John Gunn's Schat-chen. The preceding story text is the second of twenty-two “... Read more

Critical Essay by Catherine Lappas

4,516 words, approx. 16 pages

In the following essay, Lappas underscores the roles of myth and memory in Storyteller and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. Somewhere near the end of her autobiographical narrative Sto... Read more

Critical Essay by Ekaterina Stetsenko

6,039 words, approx. 21 pages

In the following essay, Stetsenko finds parallels between “Storyteller” and Anna Nerkagi's Aniko of the Nogo Tribe. The evolution of archaic cultures under the foreign influence o... Read more

Critical Essay by Alanna Kathleen Brown

4,300 words, approx. 15 pages

In the following essay, Brown elucidates the ways in which Storyteller affected her perception of storytelling and provided insight into her own experiences. As a teacher I have always tried to speak ... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter G. Beidler et al

10,733 words, approx. 36 pages

In the following essay, Beidler brings together eight brief essays by various writers that assess the originality of “Yellow Woman” and compares an aspect of Silko's tale to that ... Read more

Critical Essay by Gregory Salyer

13,023 words, approx. 44 pages

In the following essay, Salyer provides a stylistic analysis of Storyteller. If Ceremony challenges the genre of the novel, then Storyteller challenges the idea of the book.1 An awkwardly bound compil... Read more

Critical Essay by Linda Krumholz

10,108 words, approx. 34 pages

In the following essay, Krumholz discusses the various narrative techniques Silko utilizes in Storyteller to guide the reader. In a Tiffany's ad titled “Native Design,” the famous... Read more

Critical Essay by Helen Jaskoski

6,203 words, approx. 21 pages

In the following essay, Jaskoski considers the main thematic concerns of the stories in Storyteller. Even silence was alive in his stories. —Silko, “A Geronimo Story” The eight s... Read more

Critical Essay by Elizabeth McHenry

9,293 words, approx. 31 pages

In the following essay, McHenry asserts that with Storyteller, Silko “creates a text governed not by the standards of the European literary tradition but by a mixture of written genres, written... Read more

Critical Essay by Naomi R. Rand

7,000 words, approx. 24 pages

In the following excerpt, Rand finds parallels between the protagonists in Storyteller, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus. Christopher Lasch believed th... Read more

Critical Essay by Laurie Grobman

9,051 words, approx. 31 pages

In the following essay, Grobman argues for a new classroom approach to Storyteller, contending that “the text itself provides a theoretical framework by which to teach it, one that emulates the... Read more

Critical Essay by Valerie Karno

7,172 words, approx. 24 pages

In the following essay, Karno asserts that “Storyteller” and Almanac for the Dead illuminate the “interrelationships between the Native American body, the landscape, and American ... Read more

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