Corregidora, Gayl Jones, 1975, United States, NOVEL
"...Ostracized by darker-skinned women who resent the added value her light skin gives her among black men, and unable to trust any man, black or white, because of the stories she was raised on, Ursa Corregidora sings the blues and fights both the past and the present to maintain mental and physical autonomy. Internal monologues, dreams, and remembered stories intermingle with present-day reality until it becomes difficult for the reader or Ursa to draw the lines between them—a task made doubly difficult when black men echo the proprietary attitudes (and sometimes words) of dead slave owners..."
"...Ostracized by darker-skinned women who resent the added value her light skin gives her among black men, and unable to trust any man, black or white, because of the stories she was raised on, Ursa Corregidora sings the blues and fights both the past and the present to maintain mental and physical autonomy. Internal monologues, dreams, and remembered stories intermingle with present-day reality until it becomes difficult for the reader or Ursa to draw the lines between them—a task made doubly difficult when black men echo the proprietary attitudes (and sometimes words) of dead slave owners..."
(E.B., p. 162)
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