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Corregidora

Gayl Jones
1975185 pages
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A terse, chilling novel about how the memory of slavery plagues black women and men long after emancipation. Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the 19th-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother. Charged with “making generations” to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband. Haunted by the ghosts of a Brazilian plantation, pained by a present of lovelessness and despair, Ursa slowly and firmly strikes her own…

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9 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2019
    Dreamscape Media · 9781974936656
  • Paperback · English · 2019
    Beacon Press · 184 pages · 9780807061091
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    Corregidora (Five Star)
    Serpents Tail · 192 pages · 9781852427221
  • Other · English · 2019
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 208 pages · 9780349012148
  • Other · English · 1998
    Serpent's Tail Limited · 192 pages · 9781852422073
  • Other · English · 1988
    Camden · 185 pages · 9780948491368
African American womenFictionFiction, generalAfrican americans, fictionFiction, historical, generalSlaveryHistoryNoires américaines