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SOURCE: Krumholz, Linda. “Native Designs: Silko's Storyteller and the Reader's Initiation.” In Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson, pp. 63-86. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
In the following essay, Krumholz discusses the various narrative techniques Silko utilizes in Storyteller to guide the reader.
In a Tiffany's ad titled “Native Design,” the famous New York jewelry store advertises 5″-×-7″ frames for $300 apiece as part of their Native American Collection, with styles labeled “Hopi,” “Iroquois,” “Columbia,” “Mississippi,” “Mohawk,” and “Pueblo.”1 This exemplifies the white American embrace and appropriation of American Indianness that makes it so difficult for American Indians to be heard in their own terms. Jimmie Durham, a Cherokee artist, describes a “Master Narrative” of American whites, a narrative that simultaneously erases, embraces, and consumes American Indians; a narrative that denies our colonial past, our colonial...
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