Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories recensie, review en informatie roman over slavernij uit 1991. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics in de reeks Weird Girls de heruitgave van de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster Jewelle Gomez. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories recensie en review
- “A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined.” (Guardian)
- “The Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published in 1991… Gomez’s characters are rooted in historical reality yet lift seductively out of it, to trouble traditonal models of family, identity and literary genre.” (Sarah Waters)
- “Groundbraking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them – communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time.” (Emma Donaghue)
The Gilda Stories
- Auteur: Jewelle Gomez (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: futuristische roman uit 1991, slavernijroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
- Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
- Omvang; 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
- Winnaar Lambda Award
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van Jewelle Gomez
In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things…
Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men’s clothing and seem to know others’ innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to ‘share the blood’ and live forever. They name her Gilda.
Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women’s suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?
Jewelle Gomez is born on 11 September 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a writer, activist and the author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, The Gilda Stories. Her other publications include The Lipstick Papers, Flamingoes and Bears and Oral Tradition. Formerly the executive director of the Poetry Center and the American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University, she has also worked in philanthropy for many years. She is the former director of the literature programme at the New York State Council on the Arts, the director of Grants and Community Initiatives for Horizon and the President of the San Francisco Library Commission. She lives in San Francisco.
