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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.
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'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
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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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0394493230
- ISBN 13 9780394493237
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages185
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Corregidora
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Random House, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0394493230
ISBN 13: 9780394493237
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Author's scarce first book. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. Slight wear to board corners and edges. Slight spine slant. Dust Jacket has minor chipping at the spine edges and creases to the flaps. Seller Inventory # 009666
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CORREGIDORA
Published by
Random House, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0394493230
ISBN 13: 9780394493237
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 185 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine beige with brown lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "6.95." Dust jacket shows light shelfwear and toning. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Glue at gutter of half-title beginning to separate. Shelved in case 2. Edited by Toni Morrison during her tenure at Random House, during which she read the manuscript for Corregidora and stated: "no novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this." Corregidora contains difficult themes of generational trauma, preservation of memory, domestic and sexual violence, and womanhood and motherhood and was highly praised. James Baldwin wrote: "Corregidora is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and woman.it dares to confront the absolute terror which lives at the heart of love." 1368881. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1368881
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CORREGIDORA
Published by
Random House, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0394493230
ISBN 13: 9780394493237
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First edition. First printing of this landmark work engaging with the generational trauma of slavery, edited by Toni Morrison and lavishly praised by James Baldwin and Angela Davis. CORREGIDORA is "a collective narrative of [.] four generations of female descendant of chattel slavery" (Christina Sharpe), following a matrilineal line to the life of a contemporary Black woman. Jones's work - searing, powerful, and unflinchingly examining the experiences of enslaved Black women years before BELOVED - was championed by Morrison, and greeted with wide acclaim upon publication and beyond (Angela Davis recommends it in WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS). One of the technical wonders of the text is how it incorporates Black traditions of oral storytelling to form a variegated text in another medium: as she told Michael Harper, "The best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards, metallic red- and green-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor. [6], 185, [1] pages. Text-block edges noticeably foxed, with some fainter foxing to endpapers. Jacket lightly toned as usual, with some minor soil. Overall, sound and sharp. Very good plus in a near fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 47453
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