Our mothers, our powers, our texts [electronic resource] : manifestations of Aj�e in Africana literature / Teresa N. Washington.
By: Washington, Teresa N.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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