Corregidora
by Gayl Jones
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good (ex-library)
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Serpent Tail, London, 2000. Medium Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Medium Trade Paperback. 186 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Serpent Tail, London, 2000. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Covers have no creasing. Spine has minor lean and minimal reading creases. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 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 terms with womanhood. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 24030001..
Synopsis
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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Details
- Seller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24030001
- Title
- Corregidora
- Author
- Gayl Jones
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (ex-library)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Serpent Tail
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Literature & Literary; Corregidora
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Literary;
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Traralgon, Victoria
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