![]() ![]() She and her husband Chato live in New Mexico, and they are currently near the town of Cebolleta, where they go once a month to receive their welfare check. ![]() “Lullaby” follows the actions of its protagonist-an elderly Navajo woman named Ayah-over the course of a single evening. Page numbers in this study guide refer to the 1981 Arcade Publishing edition of Storyteller. This goal also animates the individual works within the collection, “Lullaby” included although the short story is not as overtly based on Native American song or legend as some of Storyteller’s other pieces, it is nevertheless rooted in the same culture and history. ![]() By blending genres and playing with form in this way, Silko seeks to capture something of the various indigenous traditions she depicts their orality, their ceremonial or religious contexts, and their ties to particular locations are examples of specific characteristics. ![]() This collection includes not only short stories but also poetry and photographs the first edition was also printed in landscape (i.e. Indeed, “Lullaby” was first published at the height of this literary movement, in Silko’s 1981 collection Storyteller. "Lullaby” is a short story by Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko-a key figure in the Native American Renaissance. ![]()
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