Corregidora
Random House
1975
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First printing of this landmark work engaging with the generational trauma of slavery, edited by Toni Morrison and lavishly praised by James Baldwin and Angela Davis.
Corregidora is "a collective narrative of [...] four generations of female descendant of chattel slavery" (Christina Sharpe), following a matrilineal line to the life of a contemporary Black woman. Jones's work—searing, powerful and unflinchingly examining the experiences of enslaved Black women years before Beloved—was championed by Morrison, and greeted with wide acclaim upon publication and beyond (Angela Davis recommends it in Women, Race, and Class). One of the technical wonders of the text is how it incorporates Black traditions of oral storytelling to form a variegated text in another medium; as she told Michael Harper, "The best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read."
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Text-block edges noticeably foxed, with some fainter foxing to endpapers.
Jacket lightly toned, with some minor soil.
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