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Title Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / edited by Catherine Rainwater
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series New Perspectives
New perspectives.
Contents New walks on old trails / Catherine Rainwater -- Storytelling science / Susan L. Dunston -- Storyteller as tribalography / Nancy J. Peterson -- "Serious business": the visual and the verbal in Silko's Storyteller / Lee Schweninger -- "A single breath": coming home to the real in Silko's Storyteller / David L. Moore -- Space, place, and violence in Storyteller / Elizabeth Archuleta -- The web of stories: reading and change in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / Linda Krumholz -- "This story is found": Silko's Storyteller and the Roots of Native American Literature / David Stirrup -- Storyteller in an undergraduate theory course / Ami M. Regier
Summary As American Indian writers frequently remind their readers, storytellers wield formidable power to affect the earth and its inhabitants. This is the medicine power that inheres in tribal expression such as chants, prayers, and ceremonial rituals. Leslie Marmon Silko innovates literary genres to create a uniquely effective medicine power. When Silko's Storyteller first appeared in 1981, critics were baffled by this complex text. Today it is a canonical work in the study of American Indian literature. The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use the growth of understanding of Native American literature in general and of Silko's work in particular to unpack this fascinating work and its critical reception over the years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Storyteller
SUBJECT Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948- Storyteller gnd
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Form Electronic book
Author Rainwater, Catherine, 1953- editor.
ISBN 9780826357281
0826357288