Storyteller (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Literary history
- 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
Form and Content
In 1969, Leslie Marmon Silko’s first story, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds,” appeared in New Mexico Quarterly, and it was used as the title story of an anthology of Indian poetry edited by Kenneth Rosen in 1974. Silko is half Laguna Indian, and this piece signaled the beginning of her efforts (through her poetry and stories) to put Old Laguna on the map as a source of age-old materials. “This place I am from is everything I am as a writer and human being,” she says. Laguna represents a life, a history, a liturgical culture that in her mind...
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