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Indiana University Press
Language
English
Pages
332

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Subjects
Yoruba (African people), Women and literature, Religion, African American authors, Creation in literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, African fiction (English), Motherhood in literature, African American women in literature, Women authors, African American women, Mothers and daughters in literature, American fiction, Women in literature, African influences, History
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United States
Times
20th century

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/351
Library of Congress
PS374.N4 W368 2005, PS374.N4W368 2005

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x, 332 p. ;
Number of pages
332

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OL3298107M
ISBN 10
0253345456, 0253217571
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2004024471
OCLC/WorldCat
56805824
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8116836
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4710028
1000288

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