Unraveling Racism and Trauma: A Study of Gayl Jones Literary Landscape

Name of Author : Navya Lisa Charles, Dr. R. Raja Sekar

Abstract: Gayl Jones tells the tale of the cascading, long lasting effects of slavery on more than one generation of African Americans. Her novel imparts added compassion, courage, and maturity to the readers. Quite a few harmful psychological effects lastingly pursue Ursa after she evidences her status as Corregidora and inherits a direct maternal line to her slave past. Corregidora demonstrates that slaverys impact on African Americans was not confined solely to physical and socio economic suppression but also affected them psychologically and sexually. The book is written in a lyrical Blues style. So, among other things, Corregidora expresses the misery and emotional release that Black people still felt long after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed in the United States. Gayl Jones makes an effort to humanize black peoples mental processes through her presentation of multiple generations instead of simply showing the horrifying legacy of slavery.

Keywords : slavery, African Americans, psychological, generations, emancipation proclamation.

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