Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.
List of contents
Introduction: Remember the Stories - Melody Graulich
Chronology
Yellow Woman - Leslie Marmon Silko
Background to the Story
A Leslie Marmon Silko Interview - Kim Barnes
Critical Essays
Ritual and Renewal: Keres Traditions in Leslie Silko's "Yellow Woman" - A. LaVonne Ruoff
Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale - Paula Gunn Allen
Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Man - Paula Gunn Allen
Earthy Relations, Carnal Knowledge: Southwestern American Indian Women Writers and Landscape - Patricia Clark Smith and Paula Gunn Allen
"The Telling Which Continues": Oral Tradition and the Written Word in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller - Bernard A. Hirsch
The Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller - Arnold Krupat
The Storytellers in Storyteller - Linda Damielson
The Web of Meaning: Naming the Absent Mother in Storyteller - Patricia Jones
Selected Bibliography
Permissions
About the author
Edited by Melody Graulich
