Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature /
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Elektroninen E-kirja |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2005.
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| Linkit: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sisällysluettelo:
- 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.