Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature /
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Our mothers, our powers, our texts |h [electronic resource] : |b manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / |c Teresa N. Washington. |
| 260 | |a Bloomington : |b Indiana University Press, |c c2005. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 332 p. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a American fiction |x African American authors |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women and literature |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American fiction |x Women authors |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African fiction (English) |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American women |x Intellectual life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American fiction |x African influences. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American women in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mothers and daughters in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Yoruba (African people) |x Religion. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Motherhood in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Creation in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women in literature. | |
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature /