• Farina Basumatary
• Dr. Zothanchhingi Khiangte

The necessity of classification of poetry created by ethnic minority writers to the category of Ethno-poetry stands as a living proof of deliberate attempts to exclude a part of the worldviews of ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority poetry is relegated to the zone of that which is ‘lesser poetry’ and not poetry-proper. However, ethno-poetic elements as traced in the poetic works of Leslie Marmon Silko in Storyteller reveal a complexity that is not necessarily an element of all mainstream poems. This paper is an attempt at presenting an ethnopoetic reading of Silko’s verses in her work Storyteller published in 1981.

Ethno-poetry, Politics, Marginalized voices, Mythic origins, Stylistic elements, Obscure symbolism.

"AN ETHNOPOETIC READING OF THE POETRY OF LESLIE MARMON SILKO", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no.517-527, November-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011361.pdf

"AN ETHNOPOETIC READING OF THE POETRY OF LESLIE MARMON SILKO", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no. pp517-527, November-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011361.pdf