Jewelle Gomez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jewelle Gomez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jewelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Gomez |
| SIGNATURE | GÓMEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
June Jordan
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Caucasia (review)
A shoe box marked "Negrobilia" filled with momentos--a James Brown 8 track cassette, an Afro pick, an Egyptian necklace--is all that Birdie Lee has for nine years to remember her father, Deck. This ephemera, remnants of a cultural construct of blackness created in the 1960s, is an inadequate legacy for the adolescent Birdie Lee. But the box has profound significance for Deck as he takes custody of Cole, his darker-skinned daughter, and leaves the…
The Jewelle Gomez Stories as Told to Amanda Kovattana
Fiction and the performing arts are powerful tools for cultural activism. As Jewelle Gomez tells the story of how her black lesbian vampire novel, The Gilda Stories, was brought to the stage, it becomes clear that many people who would not otherwise seek out such stories are exposed to the stories of minorities via plays. Part of this retelling illustrates how arts funding is controlled by politics. Jewelle Gomez also demonstrates her activism by…
El Beso
Every shape and shade build to cacophony in the newness of freedom. Many are reborn into the singing, glorious hints of redress and burnished futures. But you arrive after the sound has died down. Your legacy: "crying want" in muted tones-- saffron and lilac evocations of crimson secrets
To Grandmother's House I Go
Within the mode of “biomythography” that owes its identification as a genre to Audre Lorde's ZAMI,Jewelle Gomez examines her own writing processes. Her explorations revolve around her work-in-process about her great grandmother's life. Issues of truth, memory, history, race, and community are considered. The author also discusses the embodied nature of writing
Jumping the Fence 1910
El Beso
Jewelle Gomez is a poet, fiction writer and literary critic. Her first novel, The Gilda Stories, won two Lambda Literary Awards for fiction and science fiction. Gomez' latest work is a collection of short fiction, Don't Explain. She was on the founding board of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), on the original staff of one of the oldest weekly Black television shows in the U.S. ("Say Brother" in Boston) and the former Execu…
My Chakabuku Mama
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
Forty-Three Septembers
Journal Article Forty-Three Septembers. Jewelle Gomez. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993.198 pages. $10.95. Get access Forty-Three Septembers. Jewelle Gomez. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. 198 pages. $10.95. Edith Blicksilver Edith Blicksilver Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 1996, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/467967 Published: 01 June 19…
Selected Strands of Identity
Speculative Fiction and Black Lesbians
Talking about It
Poetry
Black Women Heroes
Black Women Heroes
Poetry
Talking about It
Speculative Fiction and Black Lesbians
Selected Strands of Identity
Forty-Three Septembers
Journal Article Forty-Three Septembers. Jewelle Gomez. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993.198 pages. $10.95. Get access Forty-Three Septembers. Jewelle Gomez. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. 198 pages. $10.95. Edith Blicksilver Edith Blicksilver Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 1996, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.2307/467967 Published: 01 June 19…
To Grandmother's House I Go
Within the mode of “biomythography” that owes its identification as a genre to Audre Lorde's ZAMI,Jewelle Gomez examines her own writing processes. Her explorations revolve around her work-in-process about her great grandmother's life. Issues of truth, memory, history, race, and community are considered. The author also discusses the embodied nature of writing
Jumping the Fence 1910
El Beso
Jewelle Gomez is a poet, fiction writer and literary critic. Her first novel, The Gilda Stories, won two Lambda Literary Awards for fiction and science fiction. Gomez' latest work is a collection of short fiction, Don't Explain. She was on the founding board of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), on the original staff of one of the oldest weekly Black television shows in the U.S. ("Say Brother" in Boston) and the former Execu…
My Chakabuku Mama
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000
Caucasia (review)
A shoe box marked "Negrobilia" filled with momentos--a James Brown 8 track cassette, an Afro pick, an Egyptian necklace--is all that Birdie Lee has for nine years to remember her father, Deck. This ephemera, remnants of a cultural construct of blackness created in the 1960s, is an inadequate legacy for the adolescent Birdie Lee. But the box has profound significance for Deck as he takes custody of Cole, his darker-skinned daughter, and leaves the…
The Jewelle Gomez Stories as Told to Amanda Kovattana
Fiction and the performing arts are powerful tools for cultural activism. As Jewelle Gomez tells the story of how her black lesbian vampire novel, The Gilda Stories, was brought to the stage, it becomes clear that many people who would not otherwise seek out such stories are exposed to the stories of minorities via plays. Part of this retelling illustrates how arts funding is controlled by politics. Jewelle Gomez also demonstrates her activism by…
El Beso
Every shape and shade build to cacophony in the newness of freedom. Many are reborn into the singing, glorious hints of redress and burnished futures. But you arrive after the sound has died down. Your legacy: "crying want" in muted tones-- saffron and lilac evocations of crimson secrets
June Jordan
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Political science (3 works)