03612nam 2200817 a 450 991077832360332120230616235408.097866122631870-253-00319-91-282-26318-8(CKB)1000000000788851(OCoLC)646474714(CaPaEBR)ebrary10326337(SSID)ssj0000216807(PQKBManifestationID)11173194(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216807(PQKBWorkID)10198215(PQKB)11298312(MiAaPQ)EBC455807(MdBmJHUP)muse16957(Au-PeEL)EBL455807(CaPaEBR)ebr10326337(CaONFJC)MIL226318(EXLCZ)99100000000078885120041019d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOur mothers, our powers, our texts[electronic resource] manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature /Teresa N. WashingtonBloomington Indiana University Pressc20051 online resource (348 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-253-34545-6 0-253-21757-1 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 fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAfrican fiction (English)History and criticismAfrican American womenIntellectual lifeAmerican fictionAfrican influencesAfrican American women in literatureMothers and daughters in literatureYoruba (African people)ReligionMotherhood in literatureCreation in literatureWomen in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.African fiction (English)History and criticism.African American womenIntellectual life.American fictionAfrican influences.African American women in literature.Mothers and daughters in literature.Yoruba (African people)Religion.Motherhood in literature.Creation in literature.Women in literature.810.9/351Washington Teresa N.1971-1576503MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778323603321Our mothers, our powers, our texts3854343UNINA