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Read the short story "Deer Woman" by Paula Gunn Allen and submit your response to assignment 10.1. For your response, choose anything on which you would like to focus from the story and write a paragraph about it.  "Deer Woman" is not in your text.  Use the link in this assignment description to access a PDF of the story.  The link to the author includes three quotes by the author that are worth your consideration.  "Deer Woman" is similar to the TRICKSTER stories we read in that you need to accept what is written, even if you don't think it would really happen.  Here, I remind you of the quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge I mentioned in class when we discussed coyote trickster figures: 

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet and author, called drama 'that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith ...'

Any creative endeavor, certainly any written creative endeavor, is only successful to the extent that the audience offers this willing suspension as they read, listen, or watch. It's part of an unspoken contract: The writer provides the reader/viewer/player with a good story, and in return, they accept the reality of the story as presented, and accept that characters in the fictional universe act on their own accord."

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