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Author:

Mobley, Marilyn Sanders.

Title:

Folk roots and mythic wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison : the cultural function of narrative / Marilyn Sanders Mobley.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

x, 193 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Jewett, Sarah Orne,--1849-1909--Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation.
Jewett, Sarah Orne,--1849-1909.
Morrison, Toni.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Folklore in literature.
Literature and anthropology--United States.
Myth in literature.
Women and literature--United States.
Women--By--Women
United States

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780807116609 (cloth)
0807116602 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23462677
(OCoLC)27144363

LCCN:

91015031

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)