How can Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" be linked to Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus"?

Both of these works are semi-autobiographical reflections by women authors who, for different reasons, consider themselves outsiders. Morrison's "Recitatif" contains snapshots in the life of a woman whose years are punctuated by repeated encounters with another woman whom she had first met when they were both young girls in a state-run foster home. Twyla and Roberta start their life journeys in approximately the same place, but over time, due to the racism inherent in US society, their positions in society diverge, and their encounters with each other become increasingly strained and uncomfortable. Twyla sees that she and Roberta have each interpreted the past (and the present) differently and have developed radically different perspectives on the issues affecting them both. They end up having little in common.
Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" can also be seen as a series of snapshots of a life or, more precisely, the imagined death and resurrection of a woman. Like Lazarus in the New Testament, the speaker is pulled from the grave—just as Plath herself was saved from repeated suicide attempts before she finally asphyxiated herself to death at the age of thirty, in 1963.
A specific analogy between Morrison's story and Plath's poem is that each of Twyla's repeated meetings with Roberta is a kind of death and rebirth, with Twyla learning more and more about the distance a racial society has created between herself and her friend. Plath's personal issues, expressed in "Lady Lazarus," are also complex and deeply troubling. In her case the subtext is the unresolved love-hatred for her father, and the evil he represented for her. But as stated above, in a more general but perhaps more profound way, the connection between Morrison and Plath can be seen in their shared sense of alienation and their status as the Other in a largely hostile world.