About the Author
Leslie Marmon Silko was born on March 5, 1948, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Raised on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation in northern New Mexico, Silko’s cultural […]
Lullaby
Setting
“Lullaby” first appeared in Storyteller (1981), a book in which Silko interweaves autobiographical reminiscences, short stories, poetry, photographs of her family (taken by her father) […]
Themes and Characters
The role of storytelling in Native American culture is a theme central to all of Silko’s work. “Lullaby” appears in a collection that is especially […]
Literary Qualities
“Lullaby” is told from the third-person-restricted point of view. That means that, although the narrator is not a character in the story, the perspective of […]
Social Sensitivity
Silko was part of a new generation of Native American writers who emerged in the 1970s in what has been termed the Native American Renaissance […]
Ideas and Topics for Papers
VII TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 1. The 1970s, during which Silko’s short story “Lullaby” was first written, were a significant time in the history of Native […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Ceremony (1977), also by Silko, interweaves free verse poetry with narrative prose. The novel tells the story of Tayo, a World War II veteran of […]