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02680cam a2200493 a 4500 001 FAF285CE2B0D11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 005 200904170009.0 008 041019s2005 inu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2004024471 020 $a 9780253217578 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0253217571 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780253345455 (alk. paper) 020 $a 0253345456 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)56805824 035 $a (OCoLC)58829952 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d BAKER $d IXA $d SYB $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d ION $d SILO 050 00 $a PS374.N4 $b W368 2005 082 00 $a 810.9/351 $2 22 100 1 $a Washington, Teresa N., $d 1971- 245 1 $a Our mothers, our powers, our texts : $b manifestations of AjeÌ in Africana literature / $c Teresa N. Washington. 260 $a Bloomington : $b Indiana University Press, $c c2005. 300 $a x, 332 p. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index. 505 0 $a AjeÌ in Yorubaland -- AjeÌ across the continent and in the ItaÌnkaÌleÌ -- 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 AjeÌ -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter AjeÌ relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political AjeÌ of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $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. 856 41 $3 Table of contents $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024471.html 939 $a 5724827 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116051534.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160823044530.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FAF285CE2B0D11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b ION 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search