Corregidora

by Gayl Jones

Overview

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807096987
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	02/15/1987
Series:	Bluestreak
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	622 KB

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

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