Like its Japanese model, Amorous Woman is frankly erotic, but also incorporates humor and collective critique that problem Western stereotypes of the striptease East.
Donna George Storey, a generally published essayist of erotica and cultured fiction, will know from her debut novel, Amorous Woman (Orion Publishing, May 2008) at Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street in San Francisco on June 17 at 7 p.m. She will be joined by Liza Dalby, the only American ever to implement as a geisha, who will review from her memoir, East Wind Melts The Ice.
The tale of an American woman’s light of one’s life undertaking with Japan, Amorous Woman was inspired by Ihara Saikaku’s 17th-century leading falsification of the wish quarters, The Life of an Amorous Woman. Saikaku’s employ was banned by the Japanese supervision during World War II as a hazard to unconcealed morality. The novel’s adventuresome, wise-cracking ballerina gives the reader a glimpse in quod a Japan few tourists ever divine as she takes on various roles as English teacher, wife, forestall hostess and mistress. Like its Japanese model, Amorous Woman is frankly erotic, but also incorporates humor and group critique that invitation Western stereotypes of the go-go East. “Japanese men especially are still often portrayed as caricatures in the West,” Storey observes.
“I judge to record complex, sympathetic, and seductive Japanese virile characters.” The original draws on Storey’s experiences living in Japan and her doctoral delve into in Japanese belles-lettres at Stanford to give a nuanced purpose of Japanese taste and genital mores. “People are often surprised that a progenitrix of two with a doctoral situation wrote a ‘dirty book,’” the framer says. “Erotica has become more mainstream, but it’s still seen as a rotten cousin of loyal literature.
I hold elegant can be sexy, and mating can fight your remembrance as well as your libido.” Margaret Lane of the Midwest Book Review described Amorous Woman as “a mingle of humor, societal critique, and learned ingenuity that is formidable from beginning to end,” and erotica critic Lisabet Sarai called it “a believable and compelling naval scuttlebutt of one woman’s jaunt of sexual self-discovery.” All admit they came away with a new thanks of Japanese culture. Storey says this has always been her aim since she began her graduate over of Japan.
“With Amorous Woman, I anticipate to have contributed-if in a rather unconventional way–to inter-cultural understanding.”.
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