Yellow Woman (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Folktale
- Time of Work: About 1970
- Setting: New Mexico
- Principal Characters: A young Pueblo woman, Silva
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction, Folklore
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Native Americans or American Indians, Adultery
- Locales: New Mexico
The Story
On one level, “Yellow Woman” is a simple but haunting story of a young, married Pueblo Indian woman's two-day affair with a maverick Navajo who lives alone in the mountains and steals cattle from white and Mexican ranchers. The story is divided into four brief sections, ranging in length from four and a half pages to less than a page: Section 1 describes the morning after their first night together, and section 4 depicts (sections 3 and 4 are brief) the woman's return to her home and family on the evening of the following day.
When the woman awakens on the...
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