Folk roots and mythic wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison : the cultural function of narrative /
Mobley, Marilyn Sanders,1952-
Baton Rouge ; London : Louisiana State University Press,
c1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.
Woman writer as cultural archivist and redemptive scribe -- Rituals of flight and return : the cyclical journeys of Jewett's female characters -- Fictive fence : the complex response to loss in The Country of the pointed firs -- Myth as usable past : affirmation of community and self in Song of Solomon -- Narrative dilemma : Jadine as cultural orphan in Tar baby.
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Morrison, Toni
American fiction
Literature and anthropology
Women and literature
Folklore in literature.
Myth in literature.