Storyteller BookRags | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 15 pages of analysis & critique of Storyteller BookRags.

Storyteller BookRags | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 15 pages of analysis & critique of Storyteller BookRags.
This section contains 4,275 words
(approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Kate Shanley Vangen

SOURCE: Vangen, Kate Shanley. “The Devil's Domain: Leslie Silko's ‘Storyteller’.” In Coyote Was Here: Essays on Contemporary Native American Literary and Political Mobilization, edited by Bo Schöler, pp. 116-23. Aarhus, Denmark: Sedkos, 1984.

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 system “closes off the people's stories.”

In his article entitled ‘The Translation Dilemma’, Jeffrey F. Huntsman raises a crucial question regarding the translation and study of Native American literatures: what do we stand to gain and/or lose by making ‘pretty judgments’?

[O]utsiders can make too much of a given phrasing because they fail to understand fully the force—or lack of force—the phrase may have for its ordinary users. To cite a set of trivial but effective examples: If we compare French j'ai faim (lit. ‘I have hunger...

(read more)

This section contains 4,275 words
(approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Kate Shanley Vangen
Copyrights
Gale
Critical Essay by Kate Shanley Vangen from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.