Lullaby | Themes
Storytelling
The role of storytelling in Native American culture is a theme central to all of Silko's work. "Lullaby'' appears in a collection entitled Storyteller, which is especially concerned with ways of translating the oral tradition of storytelling into a written English format. Ayah, the old woman who is the main character, does not tell a story directly to another person; however, the story is comprised of her reminiscences, which function as a form of internal storytelling. This written story captures the structure of an oral story, in that it weaves past...
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