Corregidora on YouTube

One Book One Bronx is recording all its Zoom-based discussions. If you missed a discussion, feel free to view it on the Literary Freedom Project YouTube channel. Corregidora was written by Gayl Jones and edited by Toni Morrison.

Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, a nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Charged with 'making generations' to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband. Haunted by the ghosts of a Brazilian plantation, pained by a presence of lovelessness and despair, Ursa slowly and firmly strikes her own terms with womanhood.