Folk roots and mythic wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison : the cultural function of narrative / Marilyn Sanders Mobley
- Author:
- Mobley, Marilyn Sanders, 1952-
- Published:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
- Edition:
- Louisiana pbk. ed.
- Physical Description:
- x, 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Contents:
- The woman writer as cultural archivist and redemptive scribe -- Rituals of flight and return : the cyclical journeys of Jewett's female characters -- The 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.
- Subject(s):
- Other Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0807119644 (paper)
9780807119648 (paper)
0807116602
9780807116609 - Collection:
- Barbara Ann McCarthy Collection of African-American Women Writers.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-187) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Rare Books copy: Gift of Barbara Ann McCarthy and Robert B. Greer III, M.D.; 2010.
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