![]() ![]() ![]() This is Gomez's first novel she is a poet and the author of Flamingoes and Bears. Gomez provides an unusual twist to the erotic vampire novel, introducing issues of race and sexual preference, but there is no attempt to address these issues except as fodder for an ultimately uninteresting romance novel. The Gilda Stories can be used as a focal point for discussion of important lesbian feminist issues through its feminized focus on blood in a vampire novel, with how Gilda’s character is situated in vampiric sexuality, and with how through Gilda, Gomez flips racial and gendered stereotypes for barrier release. The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Stories is a very American odyssey. Subsequent lives take Gilda to California in 1890, Missouri in 1921, Massachusetts in 1955, New York in 1981 where she does a stint as a cabaret singer, and into the future in New Hampshire in 2020 and up to the year 2050. Rescued and adopted by Gilda, a vampire who runs a brothel, she soon becomes a vampire herself and adopts Gilda's name. In her first life, she is a runaway slave in Louisiana in 1850, not yet a vampire, not yet named, who stabs a rapist/bounty hunter in self-defense. ![]() Throughout her lives, Gilda is a woman of African descent with strong feminist traits and a sense of loyalty to her friends and family, both mortal and immortal. The central character of this multiracial, feminist, lesbian vampire romance fantasy travels through time and leads multiple lives. ![]()
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