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"Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood."
- Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa
"Washington's book testifies to the author's impressive knowledge of Africana lore and literature, especially their feminine and feminist aspects, and is destined, deservedly, to become an authority for students of the Africana universe."
- Oyekan Owomoyela, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, author of Yoruba Proverbs
"Washington provides a feminist but distinctly non-Western analysis of the Yoruba concept of Aje and its appearance through a wide variety of Africana literature. In part 1, the author identifies Aje both as a creative and life-giving power and as the people, usually women, who wield it. She lays out the place of Aje in Yoruba cosmology: its revelation in the praise song Itan-Oriki Iyami Osoronga and its passage in new forms, including hoodoo, to new lands through the African diaspora. In part 2, Washington interprets important Africana works as manifestations of Aje, showing particularly how displaced peoples of Africa have called on Aje to combat or make sense of oppression based on race, politics, or gender. Washington argues that traditional readings of, for example, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day are based on inappropriate Western assumptions and values. Certainly readers will find new ideas here--surprising and illuminating readings that reveal the female protagonists' control of and by Aje. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper--division undergraduates through faculty."
- C. A. Bily, Adrian College, Choice
"This important book will be welcomed into Black, women's, post colonial, and literary studies, but it deserves a still wider audience. Incorporating the work of earlier critics, yet reaching well beyond earlier findings, it delineates a system of traditional African cultural expression encrypted in contemporary literary forms and manifest to those with eyes to see it; but more importantly, it goes far toward re-empowering the Africana image of the female elder."
- Menoukha Case, Empire State College
"Washington writes supple and thoughtful prose and creatively integrates African and African-derived terminology, which never distract the reader. I consider Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts not only a brilliant study, but also a model to be emulated."
- Ousseynou B. Traore, William Paterson University
"Patiently,Washington takes the reader through the complex cosmology and practices of Yoruba religion and philosophy. It is a much needed affirmation of feminine power and resource, and is essential reading for anyone attempting a greater understanding of the work of contemporary Africana writers."
- Janie Franz, Elevate Difference
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