Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women’s Fiction

by Jacqeline De Weever

This original critical study examines the significance of mythology for contemporary black women writers. It illustrates the narrative strategies used to elucidate themes of mythmaking in such writers as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Toni Cade Bambara, and Paule Marshall. She identifies the influences of different mythologies - European, African, Black American, and Native American - on black women writers who have appropriated them and reveals the skill with which they have woven them into the worlds of their own experiences.

194 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2015

Reviews

[Kailah Foreman]

this book provides a lot of insight into the novels we love through a mythological lens and it helped me understand the stories a lot better!