Women's Literature from 1960 to the Present - Leslie Marmon Silko (Short Story Date 1981)
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (SHORT STORY DATE 1981)
SOURCE: Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman.” In Storyteller, pp. 54-62. New York: Seaver Books, 1981.
A Native American from Laguna Pueblo, Silko often retells legends derived from the oral folklore traditions of her own people. The following excerpt, from the short story Yellow Woman, is an example of Silko’s use of these traditions in her own writing.
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My thigh clung to his with dampness, and I watched the sun rising up through the tamaracks and willows. The small brown water birds came to the river and hopped across the mud, leaving brown scratches in the alkali-white crust. They bathed in the river silently. I could hear the water, almost at our feet where the narrow fast channel bubbled and washed green ragged moss and fern leaves. I looked at him beside me, rolled in the red blanket on the white river sand. I cleaned the sand out of...
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