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Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Teresa N. Washington
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- x, 332 pages ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocn646822853
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-325) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- Ajé in Yorubaland -- Ajé across the continent and in the Itànkálé -- Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and T. Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby
Subjects
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- African fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
- African American women -- Intellectual life.
- American fiction -- African influences.
- African American women in literature.
- Mothers and daughters in literature.
- Yoruba (African people) -- Religion.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Creation in literature.
- Women in literature.