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 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 "In sensuous prose,
Jewelle Gomez uses the vampire story as a vehicle for a re-telling
of American history in which the disenfranchised finally get their
say. Her take on queerness, community, and the vampire legend is as
radical and relevant as ever."--Michael Nava, author of The City of
Palaces "I devoured the 25th anniversary edition of Jewelle Gomez's
The Gilda Stories with the same venal hunger as I did when I first
read it. I still feel a connection to Gilda: her tenacity, her
desire for community, her insistence on living among humanity with
all its flaws and danger. The Gilda Stories are both classic and
timely. Gilda emphasizes the import of tenets at the crux of black
feminism while her stories ring with the urgency of problems that
desperately need to be resolved in our current moment."--Theri A.
Pickens, author of New Body Politics "This revolutionary classic by
a pioneer in black speculative fiction will delight and inspire
generations to come."--Tananarive Due, author of Ghost Summer "The
Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published in
1991, and this anniversary edition reminds us why it's still an
important novel. Gomez's characters are rooted in historical
reality yet lift seductively out of it, to trouble traditional
models of family, identity, and literary genre and imagine for us
bold new patterns. A lush, exciting, inspiring read."--Sarah
Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet " . . . its focus on a black
lesbian who possesses considerable agency througout the centuries,
and its commentary on gender and race, remain significant and
powerful."--Publishers Weekly
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