“What Do the Blues Do for You?” Relying on the Blues for Liberating and Transcendent Space in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora

Abstract

Gayle Jones is a contemporary African American woman novelist who is keenly aware
of and genuinely concerned with Black women and their ability to define themselves. She knows
that Black women live very complex lives and that Black women have been historically removed
from the process of defining themselves. Subsequently, Corregidora enlightens readers about
Black women's desire for their own domain, a place of refuge fled to by Black women in order to
combat the social politics that lead to oppression