Corregidora

Gayl Jones

first published 1975 Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2019 208 pages

Black women writers series

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 st...

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Corregidora paperback · 2019 · Beacon Press · 184 pages · 9780807061091
Corregidora edition · 2019 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 208 pages · 9780349012148
Corregidora audiobook · 2019 · Dreamscape Media · 9781974936656
Corregidora (Five Star) paperback · 2000 · Serpents Tail · 192 pages · 9781852427221
Corregidora edition · 1998 · Serpent's Tail Limited · 192 pages · 9781852422073
Corregidora. edition · 1988 · Camden · 185 pages
Corregidora edition · 1987 · Beacon Press · 9781299922426
Corregidora edition · 1986 · Beacon Press · 185 pages
Corregidora. edition · 1975 · Random House · 185 pages

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