The gilda stories

Sobre el libro The gilda stories de Jewelle Gomez publicado por Penguin Books LTD al 2025:

Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butlers Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, now as a new Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction SpecialA Penguin Classic HardcoverFirst published in , The Gilda Stories is a groundbreaking speculative fiction vampire novel that begins in s Louisiana, where a young 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. Taking only blood as sustenance, killing as a last resort, Gilda moves through the centuries up to the dystopian future of . Gomezs classic, with a Black lesbian heroine, has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of Blackness, radical ecology, redefinitions of family, and the erotic potential of the vampire story.