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

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Autore principale: Washington, Teresa N., 1971-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
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Sommario:
  • 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.