01348nam a2200205Ia 4500008004100000020001400041020001400055040001800069041000800087100003300095245010900128260007400237300001800311504005300329505066700382650002401049650001501073650002501088650002901113130821s2005 xxu gr eng  a253217571 a253345456 aCo-BoUCMbspa00aeng1 aWashington, Teresa N.d1971-10aOur mothers, our powers, our texts manifestations of Aje' in Africana literaturecTeresa N. Washington. aBloomington (Indiana, Estados Unidos)bIndiana University Pressc2005 a332 páginas aIncluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.0 aAje? in Yorubaland. -- Aje? across the continent and in the Ita?nka?le?. -- 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.04aLiteratura africana04aLiteratura04aMujeres como autoras04aMujeres en la literatura