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omnipoetics:s.ortiz [2025/04/09 18:39] – [Simon J. Ortiz] sydneybomnipoetics:s.ortiz [2025/04/09 18:41] (current) – sydneyb
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 According to Ortiz, storytelling and narratives are more than just styles or types of literature. As explained on the //Annenberg Learner//, Ortiz argues that "The purpose of that story sharing or storytelling is . . . conversing, and the story listeners are conversing with us. We are sharing, or participating. And it’s the storyteller participating by his telling, and the listener participating by his or her listening. So it’s an exchange. It’s a dialogue. It’s an event” (qtd. in "Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)").  According to Ortiz, storytelling and narratives are more than just styles or types of literature. As explained on the //Annenberg Learner//, Ortiz argues that "The purpose of that story sharing or storytelling is . . . conversing, and the story listeners are conversing with us. We are sharing, or participating. And it’s the storyteller participating by his telling, and the listener participating by his or her listening. So it’s an exchange. It’s a dialogue. It’s an event” (qtd. in "Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)"). 
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 ==== The Interconnectedness of Language in Song ==== ==== The Interconnectedness of Language in Song ====
  
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 His father’s song is born out of and part of who he is in that moment. The song does not exist apart from the act of carving, the act of sitting, or the aged lines in the curve of his hands and face. Each word and action are complete unto themselves, just as they form a complete interconnected whole as part of the same reality.  His father’s song is born out of and part of who he is in that moment. The song does not exist apart from the act of carving, the act of sitting, or the aged lines in the curve of his hands and face. Each word and action are complete unto themselves, just as they form a complete interconnected whole as part of the same reality. 
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 +==== Works Cited ====
 +https://search.asu.edu/profile/976829 
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 +https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/native-voices-video/simon-j-ortiz-b-1941/
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