Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature

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Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature

Title:

Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature

Author:

Washington, Teresa N., 1971-

Personal Author:

Washington, Teresa N., 1971-

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

x, 332 p.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

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.