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.
