![]() ![]() 254) How do we see this sentiment throughout the book? It is also about a relationship to time and people and shared space” (p. What thoughts do you have on this?Īlexis Pauline Gumbs says in the afterword “I hoped that reading the novel would give my mother a sense that my life as a queer black feminist is about something more than my choice of partners. Gilda never once goes back to Mississippi, where she lived as a slave on a cotton plantation yet as a vampire she must carry the soil of Mississippi around with her for protection. How does the statement in The Gilda Stories about Vampires being living histories open up a dialogue about race and sexuality through historical views in ways other vampire media has not addressed? 126) How do we see this sentiment reflected throughout the novel? It waits for you to find it again and again” (p. When Gilda is leaving Aurelia, she tells her “The past does not lie down and decay like a dead animal, Aurelia. ![]() How does the representation of family in The Gilda Stories compare to that in the other books that we’ve read? ![]()
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