Yellow Woman | Style
Setting
‘‘Yellow Woman’’ is set along a river, on mountain trails, in Silva's mountain dwelling, and in the narrator's Laguna pueblo in Arizona. The enclosed world of the pueblo, where the narrator lives with her family, suggests a limited and comfortable world. The world of the mountains, where Silva takes her, connotes timelessness and mythic knowledge. Although Silko's references to pickup trucks, highways and Jell-O firmly place "Yellow Woman’’ in the later twentieth century, in one sense, the setting is timeless: myths cannot be contained by human...
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