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.

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