Corregidora

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Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the slavemaster who fathered both her grandmother and mother. Ursa’s need to ensure that future generations never forget the horror of his rule founders when she has a fight with her husband.

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No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this’ TONI MORRISON

I dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregidora women dancing.

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 this legacy of abuse, Ursa must confront her family history after a fight with her husband leaves her unable to have children. Haunted by the ghosts of a Brazilian plantation, pained by the fractured relationships of her present, she slowly and firmly strikes her own terms with womanhood.

Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and John Updike. Exploring themes such as race, sexuality and the long repercussions of slavery, this powerful novel paved the way for Beloved and The Colour Purple.

‘Corregidora
is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women’ JAMES BALDWIN

‘A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers’ TAYARI JONES

‘An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood’ JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER

Additional information

Weight 169 g
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.6 × 1.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

195

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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