Gayl Jones

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CorregidoraPaperback, 29 January 2019

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Part of Series
Celebrating Black Women Writers
Print Length
184 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Beacon Press
Date Published
29 Jan 2019
ISBN-10
0807061093
ISBN-13
9780807061091

Description

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).

Product Details

Author:
Gayl Jones
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
29 January 2019
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
0807061093
ISBN-13:
9780807061091
Language:
English
Pages:
184
Publisher:
Weight:
249.48 gm

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