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Corregidora

Autor Gayl Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1998
The blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the 19th-century slavemaster who fathered both her grandmother and mother. Made sterile in a violent fight with her husband Mutt, Ursa Corregidora is determined to seek revenge for the crimes of violent men. Her search for independence is stark and shocking. Gayl Jones was shortlisted for the 1998 National Book Award for her novel, The Healing. Corregidora, her first book, is a classic of American fiction and heralds her place among the generation of Black American women writers which includes Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781852422073
ISBN-10: 1852422076
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. Her novel The Healing was shortlisted for the 1998 National Book Award. She is also the author of Eva's Man, The White Rat: Short Stories, and numerous other works which include plays and poetry.

Recenzii

Corregidora is a poem to black men and women. It is an ode, howbeit painful, to all the participants in the American Experience
James Baldwin 'A small, fiercely concentrated story, harsh and perfectly told
An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood
The sexual writing - and this is a book with virtually no other subject than sex - is a model of grace and taste

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No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISON

I dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregidora women dancing.


Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Charged with 'making generations' to bear witness to this legacy of abuse, Ursa must confront her family history after a fight with her husband leaves her unable to have children. Haunted by the ghosts of a Brazilian plantation, pained by the fractured relationships of her present, she slowly and firmly strikes her own terms with womanhood.

Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and John Updike. Exploring themes such as race, sexuality and the long repercussions of slavery, this powerful novel paved the way for Beloved and The Colour Purple.

'Corregidora
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

'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES


'An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER