Eva’s Man (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gayl Jones
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s, with flashbacks from the 1940’s and later
- Setting: Upstate New York
- Principal Characters: Eva Medina Canada, Davis Carter, Elvira Moody, Marie Canada
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, 1980’s, Mental illness, Sexual harassment
- Locales: New York
The Novel
Eva’s Man tells the life story of Eva Medina Canada as she remembers it during her incarceration in a psychiatric prison in upstate New York for the brutal killing of her lover, Davis Carter. The murder was simple enough—Eva poisoned his drink with arsenic. Immediately after Davis’ death, however, Eva bit off his penis and wrapped it in a silk handkerchief. It is for this molestation that she is under psychiatric care.
Eva’s Man is divided into four parts. The first, which makes up more than half the novel, begins with Eva’s arrest. In...
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