The Life of Myth and its Possible Bearing on Erna Brodber' s Fictions Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home and Myal

My impression is that Erna Brodber brings into play an unusual mythmaking talent in her two novels at a time when myth is denigrated or undervalued in favour of a realism divorced from the intuitive imagination. Perhaps it would be wise to attempt to sketch in a kind of backcloth to the novels which may help, in some degree, to say what are my approaches to 'myth' before I come to the novels themselves.