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Corregidora

Corregidora

Jones, Gayl

Paperback

Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers, Book 1

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0807061093
ISBN13: 9780807061091
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Jan 29 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. (You have to read them.)

One of The New Yorker's The Best Books We Read in 2020 picks

Jones's great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.--Anna Wiener, The New Yorker

The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.

A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones's powerful debut novel, examining womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery. Jones masterfully tells the story of Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer, who, in the wake of a tragic loss, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Brazilian slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped her life and the lives of her family, Ursa Corregidora must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present.

Selected, edited, and first edited by Toni Morrison, it is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women, (James Baldwin) and a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and as murky as the Florida swamps. (Maya Angelou).

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