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There are 14 critical essays on Storyteller BookRags.

Critical Essays on Storyteller BookRags
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Critical Essay by Gregory Salyer
13,023 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Salyer provides a stylistic analysis of Storyteller.
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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 of the traditional Cochiti story “Evil Kachina Steals Yellow Woman.”
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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.
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Critical Essay by Robert M. Nelson
9,386 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Nelson contrasts the use of the Laguna oral tradition in Storyteller, Ceremony, and John Gunn's Schat-chen.
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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 transcriptions of conversations and internal memories, and photographs.”
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Critical Essay by Laurie Grobman
9,051 words, approx. 30 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 kind of multicultural democracy implicit in multicultural education.”
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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.
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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 law.”
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Critical Essay by Naomi R. Rand
7,000 words, approx. 23 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.
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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.
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Critical Essay by Ekaterina Stetsenko
6,039 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Stetsenko finds parallels between “Storyteller” and Anna Nerkagi's Aniko of the Nogo Tribe.
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Critical Essay by Catherine Lappas
4,516 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Lappas underscores the roles of myth and memory in Storyteller and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.
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Critical Essay by Alanna Kathleen Brown
4,300 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Brown elucidates the ways in which Storyteller affected her perception of storytelling and provided insight into her own experiences.
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Critical Essay by Kate Shanley Vangen
4,230 words, approx. 14 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 system “closes off the people's stories.”


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