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ISBN-10: 8122204759
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ABOUT THE BOOK 'Desi' is a Punjabi term referring to 'of one's own people.' Desilicious is a wide-ranging compilation of erotic literature by writers of South Asian descent - a medley of arousing and thematically innovative fiction, poetry, and essays, spiced for mature appetites only. The flavours of these works, by both men and women, run deep, and vary from suggestive to salacious, risque to ribald. The collection explores the relationship between sensuality and culture, and how they can both complement and conflict with each other. They challenge colonial stereotypes of South Asian sexuality, represented by sexually repressed victims of arranged marriages or hypersexed inheritors of the Kama Sutra; they also explode existing notions of cultural 'norms'. Seductive and alluring, Desilicious will take you on a carnal journey of limitless possibilities. Edited by The Masala Trois Collective. WHAT THE PRESS SAYS "Desi is a slightly pejorative term, that probably refers to Indians who lack an international outlook towards life. But, when the desi decides to turn salacious, then he or she can churn out a Desilicious kind of erotic literature. It is easy to get enticed by stories that evoke the quintessentially subversive ideas of transgressive sexual acts, that are forbidden by society. Nothing is taboo for the group of venturesome writers, whose contributions are a part of this seductive and alluring collection of erotica that aims to stimulate the mind as well as the body, and succeeds. Contemporary erotica is often found to be sexist, but Desilicious cannot be accused of that. The stories are exceedingly liberal and they conjure a feeling as welcome as that of a mountain breeze fanning you with butterfly wings. The book does not have a foreword. What it has is an imaginatively titled, 'Foreplay', in which these lines occur to explain the leitmotif of Desilicious: 'Numerous crude caricatures and sexist stereotypes of South Asian sexualities linger stubbornly in our postcolonial zeitgeist: South Asians continue to be represented, frequently, either as repressed victims of sexless arranged marriages, or as hypersexual inheritors of the Kama Sutra. Selections in Desilicious subversively sample and remix several 'familiar' narratives of South Asian sexuality, creatively exploring the range of desires thriving between these polarised stereotypes.' The stories are extremely irreverent and, in their own subtle way, they manage to lodge their protest against some of the familiar cultural and legal shibboleths in society. The book begins with Tanuja Desai Hidier's sensual story 'Tiger, Tiger'. This is an engrossing, coming-of-age story, set in a world where sexual norms are in a state of constant flux. 'She could not, however, bring herself to take these new boys quite all the way inside her, turn them into men in the baffling factory of her body, as she never felt she'd completely expelled him from her, regained her space and balance.' It is lines like these that are eared to make the pulse bat a notch faster, and make the blood rush to the groin. The prose pieces are incisive, mature confident, and savvy." ..................... BROWSE CATEGORY Fiction > Anthology ..................... CUSTOMERS WHO BOUGHT THIS ALSO BOUGHT
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