SOURCE: McHenry, Elizabeth. “Spinning a Fiction of Culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller.” In Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson, pp. 101-20. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

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 transcriptions of conversations and internal memories, and photographs.”

Speaking at a meeting of the English Institute in August 1979, Leslie Marmon Silko warned her audience about the structure of the presentation they were about to hear:

For those of you accustomed to a structure that moves from point A to point B to point C, this presentation may be somewhat difficult to follow because the structure of Pueblo expression resembles something like a spider's web—with many little threads radiating...