Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Aje? 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.