Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts

CONTENTS 

PART ONE / AJE IN AFRICANA ORATURE

1 Aje in Yorubaland

2 Aje across the Continent and in the Itankale

PART TWO /AJE IN AFRICANA LITERATURE

3 Word becoming flesh and text in gloria naylors mama day and T. Obinkanram Echewas I saw the Sky Catch Fire

4 Initiations into the Self, the Conjured Space of Creation, and Prophetic Utterance in Ama Ata Aidoos Anota and Ntozake Shanges Sassafrass Cypress Indigo

5 Un Complementary Complements : Gender, Power, and Aje

6 Relativity of Negativity

7 The Womb of Life is a Wicked Bag: Cycles of Power, Passion, and Pain in the Mother-Daughter Aje Relationship

8 Twinning across the Ocean: The Neo Political Aje of Ben Okris Madame Koto and Mary Monroes Mama Ruby

Coda continua