Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller
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Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller

New Perspectives

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller

New Perspectives

About this book

As American Indian writers frequently remind their readers, storytellers wield formidable power to affect the earth and its inhabitants. This power is the same medicine power that inheres in tribal expression such as chants, prayers, and ceremonial rituals. Leslie Marmon Silko, critics point out, modifies literary genres to create the most effective medicine power. When Silko's Storyteller first appeared in 1981, critics were baffled by this complex text. Today it is a canonical work in the study of American Indian literature. The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use the growth in understanding of Native American literature in general and of Silko's work in particular to unpack this fascinating work and its critical reception over the years.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: New Walks On Old Trails / Catherine Rainwater
  6. 1: Storytelling Science / Susan L. Dunston
  7. 2: Storyteller as Tribalography / Nancy J. Peterson
  8. 3: “Serious Business”: The Visual and the Verbal in Silko’s Storyteller / Lee Schweninger
  9. 4: “A Single Breath”: Coming Home to the Real in Silko’s Storyteller / David L. Moore
  10. 5: Space, Place, and Violence in Storyteller / Elizabeth Archuleta
  11. 6: The Web of Stories: Reading and Change in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller / Linda Krumholz
  12. 7: “This Story Is Found”: Silko’s Storyteller and the Roots of Native American Literature / David Stirrup
  13. 8: Storyteller in an Undergraduate Theory Course / Ami M. Regier
  14. Works Cited
  15. Contributors
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover