Our mothers, our powers, our texts
Subtitle: manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature
By: Teresa N. Washington.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ajé in Yorubaland; title: Ajé across the continent and in the Itànkálé; title: Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and T. Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire; title: 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; title: Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé; title: The relativity of negativity; title: The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship; title: Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.