Corregidora

Corregidora

by Gayl Jones
Corregidora

Corregidora

by Gayl Jones

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Overview

'History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and breeder to their white owners. There are some facts and figures, but they tell us nothing about the women themselves: their motives, their emotions, and the memories they passed on to their children. Gayl Jones's first novel is a gripping portrait of this harsh sexual and psychological genealogy....Jones's language is subtle and sinewy, and her imagination sure. 'Everything said in the beginning must be said better than in the beginning.' Ursa (Corregidora) vows. Gayl Jones fulfills that pledge.'--Margo Jefferson, Newsweek

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807061565
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 01/29/2019
Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers , #1
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 472,031
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

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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