... In Gayl Jones’s 1975 novel, Corregidora , the protagonist’s great-grandmother repeatedly reminds us that the “evidence” of life lived is sedimented in flesh and bone for generations. This evidence constitutes a “countermemory” that largely fails to fit the official cultural memory of a given...

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... media assemblage “Lullaby,” Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’s photograph “When I am not Here/Estoy Allá,” Gayl Jones’s Corregidora , Lorna Simpson’s photograph “Self-Possession,” and Jamaica Kincaid’s novel The Autobiography of My Mother . black motherhood black reproduction self-possession Betye...

... the liberatory potential of improvised performance very clearly in the context of the violent oppression that often mutes it. sound embodiment gender violence heterosexism In Gayl Jones’s 1975 novel, Corregidora , the protagonist’s great-grandmother repeatedly reminds us that the “evidence...