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

• Autore: Washington Teresa N. <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/351
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Our mothers, our powers, our texts
• ISBN: 9786612263187; 0-253-00319-9; 1-282-26318-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816833503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II