Yellow Woman Part One

The narrator woke up by the river at sunrise and noticed the sounds and wildlife moving around her. A man fell asleep next to her, she saw him and returned to her horse and followed the river. She looked far away and did not see her house at Pueblo, but I knew it was there. After the man's horse tried to follow her, the talker decided that she could not leave without she returning to their position along the river without saying goodbye.

The narrator awoke the man and told him that she was gone. Not to disturb him, he just reminded her that she would call her a "yellow woman." She asked who he is, but he told her that she guessed his name and purpose last night. The narrator insists that she is not really a yellow woman, as she said, but a woman from Pueblo, an unknown person named Silva.

Although Silva continues to call a narrator as a yellow woman, she thinks that she can not be Katashina's spirit and a yellow woman in an old story. Then the talker lost his mind and I remembered that her grandfather talked about the story of a yellow woman in particular with regard to the characters Badger and Coyote. She thought about how the coyote cheated the badger and could have a yellow woman protect himself and then told her she cut the voice of Silva

The story of a yellow woman quickly reenters the thinker's idea and she leaves the yellow lady in spite of his spiritual life with ka'tsina for many years and then the house of her twin boy I think about it. If he knows this story, the talker will ask Silva. He pretended not to tell what story she was talking about and put her close. She thought of similarities between her current experience and the yellow female story, but she insisted that she did not need to play the role of a yellow woman. As this kind of thing no longer occurs, she does not have to go with him.

Silva and the narrator ride north and the talker depicts the change of the landscape as it gets higher. Silva did not talk, but when they went they sang soft folk songs. The idea of ​​the narrator remains in her family and she wants to know what her mother, grandmother, husband and children are doing at home. Her focus suddenly became a dwelling place of a mountain drawn by Silva composed of lava and mud.

"Yellow woman" is a self-reflectionistic story. In other words, the story refers to the process that constitutes the story itself. Among 'yellow women', the narrator clearly states the story of a yellow woman she told her grandfather. She wondered if the first yellow woman knew that she was a person in the story. In the adventure with Silva, she repeatedly wondered whether she became a true yellow woman, or was repeating the same episode as a Laguna woman actually experienced in "ancient" It was. Story theme

"Yellow woman" section is a short story "Yellow girl" by "Yellow woman" and "Story of the story", four poems, four poetry, poetic song of two traditional stories, four memories, four pictures and two Includes one "gossip story". According to the abduction theme of the traditional yellow female story, which is a poem consisting of six short episodes, such as "Story Writer", "Yellow Female", "Silko Version Evolution Tradition" in the "Composition" "Survival" Like the story, the main structure and theme of this section is established.

In Kenneth Rosen 's selection, publications of "people who deliver rain clouds" and "yellow women" are published separately. Among the storytellers, Silko develops mainly on "yellow women" including more verses and stories, further clarifies the relationship between yellow women and the land, the spirit that permeates it, and the story that arises from it. Bernard Hirsch wrote to American Indian Quarterly as follows. "This multipurpose work subtly maps the fertile story of her artistic evolution and comes back here - and in combination with other works ... Storyteller's" Yellow Woman "is the oral of the Laguna Pueblo community We reconstructed the tradition in and commented on.