Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
Autore | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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. |
ISBN |
9786612263187
0-253-00319-9 1-282-26318-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454898003321 |
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
Autore | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
ISBN |
9786612263187
0-253-00319-9 1-282-26318-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778323603321 |
Washington Teresa N. <1971->
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [[electronic resource] ] : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington |
Autore | Washington Teresa N. <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
ISBN |
9786612263187
0-253-00319-9 1-282-26318-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816833503321 |
Washington Teresa N. <1971->
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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