Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Aje in Africana literature / / Teresa N. Washington.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 332 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.