Story from Bear Country by Leslie Marmon Silko

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"Story from Bear Country," first published in Silko's collection of poetry and prose Storyteller in 1981, retells a Native-American myth in a simple and direct tone. Silko, an award-winning poet and novelist, grew up in New Mexico where she was raised within three strong culturesLaguna Indian, Mexican, and white Europeanwhich influenced her strong writing voice. Borrowing from traditional Laguna "abduction myths," stories of animals seducing humans and transforming them, the poet uses...

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Leslie Marmon Silko Biographies (6)

Leslie Marmon Silko

4,582 words, approx. 16 pages

In a contest of witchery among an assembly of Native American witches, one tells the group about white-skinned people who will come across the ocean. The storyteller explains how the newcomers will "g... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

5,595 words, approx. 19 pages

Even before the publication of her novel Ceremony (1977), Leslie Marmon Silko had become recognized as one of the preeminent figures in what Kenneth Lincoln calls the Native American Renaissance -- t... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

8,022 words, approx. 27 pages

During the early 1970s -- the emergent years of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the "Native American Renaissance" -- Leslie Marmon Silko was perhaps the movement's preeminent writer of short fiction. ... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

7,115 words, approx. 24 pages

Despite that her most successful work is an early one, Leslie Marmon Silko remains a central voice in Native American literature. Her first novel, Ceremony (1977), is taught in colleges and universiti... Read more

Leslie (Marmon) Silko

7,410 words, approx. 25 pages

Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the most important writers to emerge from the Native American Renaissance, a period of intense literary productivity by Native Americans that began with the 1968 publicat... Read more

Leslie Silko

1,665 words, approx. 6 pages

Leslie Silko (born 1948) is one of the foremost authors to emerge from the Native American literary renaissance of the 1970s. She blends western literary forms with the oral traditions of her Laguna P... Read more

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Leslie Marmon Silko Biographies (6)

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Leslie Marmon Silko