Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature /
Washington, Teresa N.,1971-
Bloomington : Indiana University Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
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.
American fiction
Women and literature
American fiction
African fiction (English)
African American women
American fiction
African American women in literature.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Yoruba (African people)
Motherhood in literature.
Creation in literature.
Women in literature.