SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literature: Gayl Jones

»Gayl Carolyn Jones (born November 23, 1949) is an American writer from Lexington, Kentucky. She is recognized as a key figure in 20th-century African-American literature.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Corregidora (Novel, published in 1975)

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»Corregidora (1975) is a fiction novel written by Gayl Jones set in Kentucky in the late 1940s. The novel centers around Ursa Corregidora, who was recently hospitalized after an accident involving a flight of stairs. The first three sections of the novel follow Ursa through her recovery, her changing relationships, and her profession as a blues singer. The final two sections of Corregidora flash forward to 1969 when Mutt returns. Jones uses a fragmented style of writing to incorporate the Corregidora family history of trauma into Ursa's present narrative. Overall, Corregidora considers difficult themes of generational trauma, preservation of memory, domestic and sexual violence, and womanhood and motherhood. Literary critics have highly regarded Jones' writing in this novel.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham 2012.

[Info] Bellamy, Maria R. Bridges to Memory: Postmemory in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction. Charlottesville 2016.

[Info] Ferrari, Carlyn. »"I said nothing": Teaching Corregidora and Black Women's Relationship to Consent.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 275-286.

[Info] Goldberg, Elizabeth S. »Living the legacy. Pain, desire, and narrative time in Gayl Jones' Corregidora.« Callaloo 26 (2003): 446-472.

[Info] Setka, Stella. »Haunted by the Past: Traumatic Rememory and Black Feminism in Gayl Jones's Corregidora.« Mosaic 47 (2014): 129-144.

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