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Author:

Washington, Teresa N., 1971-

Title:

Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / Teresa N. Washington.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 332 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780253217578 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253217571 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253345455 (alk. paper)
0253345456 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56805824
(OCoLC)58829952

LCCN:

2004024471

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)