Sexual and Racial Violence in Mosquito by Gayl Jones

Abstract

Jones’s later novels, The Healing and Mosquito, press the limits of the novel in an entirely different direction by evoking the sound and form of oral storytelling. The narrator of The Healing is a faith healer who can cure afflictions of both the body and the mind; the narrator of Mosquito is an African American woman truck driver in South Texas who becomes involved in the new Underground Railroad, transporting illegal immigrants and providing sanctuary.