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SPEAKER_00: Hello.From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves.Some have used that idea to their advantage, disappearing into new identities.For others, a disappearance was the end of their stories, but the beginning of a new chapter in their legacies.This month, we're telling the stories of these women.We're talking about disappearing acts. The ability to capture the rhythms of spoken word and transmute that onto a page is a rare gift.You have to be very quiet, comfortable slipping into the background, hear the different beats in people's voices.Today's Wamanakin has that gift.
She introduced new ways of thinking about Black America, womanhood, and slavery, but she completely disappeared from public life until very recently when she appeared briefly through the written word.Let's talk about Gayle Jones.Gayle Jones was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1949. Her father, Franklin, was a line cook, and her mother, Lucille, was a homemaker and a vivacious writer.In her free time, Lucille read stories she'd written for the family, subtly encouraging Gail and her little brother to use their imaginations.Gail began reading and writing early in childhood thanks to her mother's love of the written word.Weekends with her grandmother, a local playwright, further nurtured her talents. Gail's grandmother would invite friends over, and in the backyard, everyone would tell winding stories about everyday life.There was a rhythm to the way her elders spoke.This is where the young writer gained a true affection for storytelling, despite her shy nature.
Gail began her education in segregated Black schools, but later her mother arranged for Gail and her brother to attend the white, academically rigorous Henry Clay High School.Though shy and one of just a few Black students, Gail excelled academically.She caught the attention of a teacher who introduced her to the writer Elizabeth Hardwick.In a way, this was the beginning of Gail's literary life. Hardwick helped arrange a scholarship for Gail to attend Connecticut College.From there, she went on to receive a doctorate in creative writing at Brown University.Ever quiet, some of Gail's professors attributed her meekness to arrogance.But really, Gail was observant, incessant in listening to the pulses of speech and writing them down. Around 1974, Gale's work found its way into the hands of then up-and-coming editor Toni Morrison.Upon reading one of Gale's manuscripts, Morrison said, no novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this.
That novel, Corregidora, was published in 1975.Gail's debut awed readers.The novel follows a woman in Kentucky who's a descendant of both enslaved people and a Portuguese enslaver.Gail called it a blues novel because it communicated the good and the bad all at once.And it included her signature, a rhythmic cadence. The material in her novel was raw.The language was, too.She turned African-American vernacular English into a song.Corregidora was an investigation of the unique trauma of enslaved women written with a ferocity seldom seen before.The novel solidified Gale's place in the literary world until her second book, Eva's Man, was published.
Critics loathed the novel.They said the brutality depicted made it dangerous.But Gale defended her book.Her characters, she explained, were contradictory and ambivalent.When she wrote, she wrote freely, exploring the social and political world she lived in without judgment.Several years after publishing her second novel, Gale met her future husband, Robert Higgins.He was an unpredictable man with far-ranging and violent fringe beliefs. His volatile behavior and trouble with the law estranged Gale from her university and literary community.One day, Higgins brandished a gun at a Pride rally and was arrested.The backlash against him was so powerful he fled overseas.
Gale went with him, disappearing into the noise.While in exile, she never made a statement, but she spoke through the written word, publishing three books of poetry. After a few years, the two quietly returned to the United States.Gale remained hidden from public life, but she published two more novels.The first, The Healing, became a 1998 National Book Award finalist.Despite that, Gale remained solitary, refusing to join in the literary fanfare.Her blues novels contained all she wanted to say, the bad and the good, all at once. In 1998, Gayle's husband died by suicide after police were alerted to his stateside return.The spectacle and media surrounding his death led to what was assumed to be Gayle's final exit from society.She stopped publishing her works, and many of her books fell out of print.
Outside of PhD courses and niche literary journals, Gayle's industry-shifting work was all but forgotten. Until 2021, when Gayle surprised the world with a new release, Palmares.The novel is about the last settlement of fugitives from slavery in 17th century Brazil.The story is winding, pulsing, and bluesy as ever.Palmares was a triumph and a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Since this return, Gayle's manuscripts have once again hit the shelves with a steady flow.But Gayle chooses to remain living in Kentucky in solitude.She doesn't take interviews and doesn't speak to those outside of her very small inner circle.In the silence, Gayle works her gift, transmuting the rhythms of spoken words onto the page.With her most recent releases, Gayle reminds us that her work speaks for itself.
All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast.Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.Talk to you on Monday.
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SPEAKER_08: Listen to Creating a Con, the story of Bitcoin, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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