The Return of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Author uses Novel to Revive Cult Genre of Mid-20th Century
Wetmore, Colo. - Sage Sweetwater revives lesbian pulp fiction
in her new novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler (now available through AuthorHouse.) The novel jaunts through
time to tell the stories of nontraditional women and their struggle to live their lives among the warm embrace of Mother Nature.
Set deep in the forest of Lac du Flambeau,
Wis., the novel is told through the spirit of the loon with a hint of lesbian fairytale. In the woods of this beautiful
land, sprites and magical creatures frolic and torment while the loons dance and transform on the pristine waters of the lakes
and rivers. The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is a woman raised with a deep respect for nature and the skills to survive
on the fringes of modern society. She slips her canoe into the water, floats supplies up and down the river and taps
maple trees for their syrup. Her lesbian counterpart Fringe Water Many Bosom, lives in the 1800s; a true pioneer woman.
Her story mirrors Buckskin's and exhibits what life may have been like for her.
"Metaphorically, (she reminds) us of a loon's
wing which has not 'properly' aligned, society waiting for her to molt her feathers hoping her new ones will come in 'straight,'"
Sweetwater says.
The novel follows exploits of Buckskin and
her home, the Hamlet of Winonah, an all-female colony inhabited by a feminist tribe patterned after the ancient Hopewell culture.
This modern-day colony is on the remote side of the woods where the Province of Blige, a Celtic, post-card Ireland, enchants
the world around them. Buckskin makes her way between the two as she learns to live the life she wants and grows comfortable
in her own skin.
A captivating pulp novel, The Buckskin
Skirt Oar Traveler is a unique mix of lesbian fiction, fairytale and Native American mythology.
Sweetwater lives in the mountains of Colorado
where "the life of the mind and the arts reach higher than anywhere." Known to ocassionally write with a feather-quill
pen, she says she has been dubbed "a firebrand lesbian novelist." The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is her attempt
to spark a revival of the lesbian pulp novels of the 1940's, '50s and '60s. Unlike those novels, which focused on the
bedroom, she says her novel "taps into the cultural pulse and weaves lesbian fiction from social, political, environmental,
and religious themes with carefully chosen lesbian sex scenes hot enough that no more than a few are needed."
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