Tokyo Memoir by Kareeza Viloria connects to the ancient tradition of feminist suffering dating back to as early as 600 B.C. in India, when the public found shameless a poem that told about a wife initiating sex with husband. Women at that time defined their writings within the context of forced marriage, sexual slavery, poverty, house work, labor in the farm, need for fulfilling physical love. Women found escape in Buddhist convents. There was a poem by a Buddhist nun celebrating freedom from the tradition of marriage and burdensome house chores.
Women were conditioned not to complain about marriage, child bearing,domestic chores and violence. It was unthinkable for a woman to seek love outside of an unfulfilling marriage.
Of course now,legal separation, divorce, and marriage annulment are available. But honor killing is still practiced in some cultures, against women who are suspected of having intimate relations with men not their lawful husbands.
In Tokyo Memoir, sexual love was used as metaphor for humanity's deepest desire. Longing for love is essentially a longing for God.
Why was the work donated to the public domain? Because the future generations of daughters who will someday be wives and lovers would need to know how their ancestors made love with their minds, bodies, and souls-- for their emotional intelligence and spiritual freedom.
It would be liberating to know that since 600 B.C. in India up to 11th century in Japan until the 21st century in the Philippines, wives did get bored,lonely, and suicidal but discovered escape and redemption in sexuality and spirituality; and then journeyed full circle and came into terms with SELF and GOD.
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