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Autore: | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Titolo: | Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910454898003321 |
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