Our mothers, our powers, our texts [electronic resource] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / Teresa N. Washington.
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TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.Description: x, 332 p. ; 25 cmSubject(s): - 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
- PS374.N4 W368 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.