Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko | Resources

Storyteller Further Reading

Seyersted, Per, Leslie Marmon Silko, Western Writers Series, 45, Boise State University, 1980.

This text offers a short biography of Silko. It is good for information about her social and cultural milieu and early writing days. No other biography, as yet, exists.

Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian History of the American West, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

Brown's book is a classic in Native American letters. It is a moving account of U.S. history from the point of view of Native Americans.

Lincoln, Kenneth, Native American Renaissance, University of California Press, 1983.

Lincoln's book provides an overview of the figures, goals, and achievements of the Renaissance.

Anzaldua, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987

Anzaldua's book is a cultural and feminist theory that speaks to the cultural "borderlands" of the U.S. Southwest. Anzaldua describes cultures forming at the borders and...
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