Author: Carlyn Ferrari, English Department, Seattle University

Abstract: »Carlyn Ferrari provides frameworks for students to read the silence of the main character in Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975) in the context of slavery and contemporary Black womanhood, and to recognize the formal methods by which Jones connects the two; students' final personal reflection invites them to participate in breaking the silence whose legacy of suffering the novel has exposed.« (Source: Hewett, Heather, et al.»Introduction: Literary Studies as Literary Activism.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. Edited Mary K. Holland et al. New York 2021: 11.)

Contents:

	Introduction: Black Women's Bodies as Unconsentable Terrain (p. 275)
	Intellectual Well-Being: Brief Notes on Pedagogy (p. 276)
	Historical Context: (Mis)conceptions of Black Womanhood (p. 277)
	Saying "Nothing" Critically Analyzing Silence (p. 280)
	Forms of Meaning(s): Formal Analysis (p. 281)
	Saying Something: Personal Reflection (p. 282)
	A Story to Pass On (p. 284)
	Notes (p. 284)
	Works Cited (p. 285)

Wikipedia: History of the Americas: History of the United States | Literature: American literature / Gayl Jones | Literature: Rape in fictioon / Corregidora (novel) | Sex and the law: Rape / Rape in the United States