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Article: Pulling Silko's thread through time: an exploration of storytelling. (Leslie Marmon Silko)
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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As a teacher I have always tried to speak from those places in my mind and my heart that are moved by a text. I always have wanted to model to students the ways in which literature guides us to be more understanding of ourselves and others through imaginative comprehension. But I was drawn beyond unseen boundaries when I became a Native American scholar. What I thought I knew, even what moved me, was culture-bound. My insights had to expand to include what had been truly foreign to my thinking. That unfolding vision is altering not only what I teach, but how I experience the world. Moreover, my grasp of the power and meaning of storytelling has shifted at its core. This ...