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Auteur(s) : Gomez, Jewelle (1948-....)
Titre(s) : The Gilda stories [Texte imprimé] / Jewelle Gomez ; afterword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Édition : Expanded 25th anniversary edition
Publication : San Francisco (Calif.) : City lights books, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-259 p.) ; 22 cm
Note(s) : "Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda
Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel."The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not
just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them--communally, unapologetically,
roaming fiercely over space and time."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room"Jewelle Gomez
sees right into the heart. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their
own strength."-Dorothy Allison"Gomez's women are savvy and bold, with a sense of ancestry
and history. The author's compassion, affection, and respect for her characters are
infectious."-Library Journal This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where
Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being
initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda
spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian
classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously
prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of
family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story. Jewelle Gomez is a writer,
activist, and the author of many books including Forty-Three Septembers, Don't Explain,
The Lipstick Papers, Flamingoes and Bears, and Oral Tradition. The Gilda Stories was
the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards, and was adapted for the stage by the
Urban Bush Women theater company in thirteen United States cities. Alexis Pauline
Gumbs was named one of UTNE Reader's 50 Visionaries Transforming the World, a Reproductive
Reality Check Shero, a Black Woman Rising nominee, and was awarded one of the first-ever
"Too Sexy for 501c3" trophies. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. More praise for
The Gilda Stories:"Jewelle's big-hearted novel pulls old rhythms out of the earth,
the beauty shops and living rooms of black lesbian herstory, expressed by the dazzling
vampire Gilda. Her resilience is a testament to black queer women's love, power, and
creativity. Brilliant!"--Joan Steinau Lester, author of Black, White, Other "
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Gumbs, Alexis Pauline (1982-....). Postfacier
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780872866744. - ISBN 0872866742 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45559503n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45559503
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