Our mothers, our powers, our texts [electronic resource] : manifestations of Aj�e in Africana literature / Teresa N. Washington.
By: Washington, Teresa N.
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BookPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005Description: x, 332 p.Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/351 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
Aj�e in Yorubaland -- Aj�e across the continent and in the It�ank�al�e -- 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 Aj�e -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Aj�e relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Aj�e of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.
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