Kim, Jin-kyeong. “Experiments for a New Narrative Community: A Study on Leslie Marmon Silko`s Storyteller”. Modern Studies in English Language & Literature 57.1 (2013): 53-74. This paper analyses how Leslie Marmon Silko reconstructs a new narrative community in Storyteller, subverting the epistemological premise of Western individualism. Storyteller defies categorization of western genres. Despite its autobiographical design which presents Silko as a storyteller, it does not focus on Silko as an individual. Rather, it is a collection of photographs of her life, traditional stories and her essays on those stories and storytellers, her creative short stories and poems. This reflects native American concept of the identity: individuality connected with the whole world. With various versions of stories adapted to the circumstances as well as with various experiments to facilitate readers` participation in creating communal meaning, Silko brings traditional stories alive in contemporary world. Like Yellow Woman who shatters the boundary of her culture and welcomes changes mediating the cultural contact, like stories with its fluidity and changes, Silko`s readers become members of a new community which welcomes changes resulting from embracing and incorporating other paradigms. (Seoul Theological University)