Survival of Storytelling in Contemporary Native American Literature

Abstract

N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Michael Dorris’ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water are outstanding pieces of contemporary Native American fiction. These novels could be depicted as representative artefacts of the Native American oral traditions as each of them wear on themselves the characteristics of the ancient stories of the so called ‘storytellers’. (Introduction)