![]() ![]() In this novel, she points out the opposition between the Native stories about reciprocity with nature and Euro-American stories of dominion. For Silko, the process of writing her novel Ceremony was not only a way of staying sane - as she states herself 3 - but also to identify with her Native American origins. Leslie Marmon Silko was brought up in the Laguna Pueblo community in New Mexico, a Native American 1 tribe where storytelling plays an important cultural role 2. ![]() ![]() In this paper, a definition of oral storytelling will be provided along with an introduction in order to define the subject matter as well as the significance of putting oral storytelling into writing as Silko did in Ceremony. In most cases the author is unknown and the story has undergone many modifications in the course of the telling processes still they are today’s primary testimonies for language, history, culture and people of the past. By definition, its genre is determined by its original oral transmission many of the world’s greatest literary classics such as El Cid, La Chanson de Roland, Beowulf or the Odyssey were originally orally transmitted. Oral storytelling is a tradition inherent to all cultures. ![]() Functions of Storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony ![]()
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