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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807024140ISBN-10:807024147UPC:9780807024140Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, HistoricalBook Topic:Women, HistoricalSize:9.20 x 6.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCTV3ETYPM
A deluxe hardcover edition of Jones's American masterpiece, telling the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") A Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette
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).
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).
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807024140ISBN-10:807024147UPC:9780807024140Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, HistoricalBook Topic:Women, HistoricalSize:9.20 x 6.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCTV3ETYPM
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University; she has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, White Rat, Song for Anninho, and Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature.
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