An edition of Corregidora (1975)

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An edition of Corregidora (1975)

Corregidora

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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 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 in a tortured world.

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Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
185

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Subjects
African American women, Fiction, Fiction, general, African americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Slavery, History, Noires américaines, Romans, nouvelles, FICTION, Historical, General, African american women

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Corregidora
2019, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Corregidora
Jan 29, 2019, Dreamscape Media
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Corregidora
Jan 29, 2019, Beacon Press
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Corregidora (Five Star)
May 2000, Serpents Tail
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Corregidora
1998, Serpent's Tail Limited
in English
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Corregidora.
1988, Camden
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Corregidora
1987, Beacon Press
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Corregidora
1986, Beacon Press
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Corregidora.
1975, Random House
in English - [1st ed.]
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Boston

Edition Notes

Series
Black women writers series
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3560.O483 C6 1986, PS3560.O483C6 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
185 p. ;
Number of pages
185

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2741367M
Internet Archive
corregidora00jone
ISBN 10
0807063150
LCCN
86047512
Library Thing
50827
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530773

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