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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Washington, Teresa N., 1971-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.

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