Storyteller (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1981
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Short fiction, Poetry, Folklore, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, History, Family or family life, Tradition, Mythology or myths, Racism, Nature, Literature, Native Americans or American Indians, Storytelling, Gods or goddesses, Photography or photographers, Lifestyles, Oral history, Rites or ceremonies, Letters, Peru or Peruvians
The Work
A collection of autobiographical sketches, poems, family photographs, and short stories, Storyteller fuses literary and extraliterary material into a mosaic portrait of cultural heritage and of conflict between the two ethnic groups composing her heritage, the European American and the Native American.
The title story, “Storyteller,” presents that conflict from the point of view of a young Inuit woman who is fascinated with and repulsed by white civilization. Set in Alaska—the only major work of the author not in a Southwestern setting—the story...
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