Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Ajé in Africana literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Washington, Teresa N., 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

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.