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UNINA9910778323603321 |
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Autore |
Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
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9786612263187 |
0-253-00319-9 |
1-282-26318-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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