CORREGIDORA

by Jones, Gayl

$3,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Very good plus in a near fine jacket.. 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." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards, metallic red- and green-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor. [6], 185, [1] pages. Text-block edges noticeably foxed, with some fainter foxing to endpapers. Jacket lightly toned as usual, with some minor soil. Overall, sound and sharp.

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 1975
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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