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

Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Aje in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington.

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Our mothers, our powers, our texts [electronic resource] : manifestations of Aje in Africana literature / Teresa N. Washington.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
x, 332 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
Aje in Yorubaland -- Aje across the continent and in the Itankale -- 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 Aje -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Aje relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Aje of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
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