A feminist with Indian roots, she has explored issues of gender and sexual orientation in her writing, and The Fabulous Feminist presents excerpts from her many works. Namjoshi has dabbled in various literary forms: this book contains fables, poems, short stories, and excerpts from novels. Suniti Namjoshi. · Rating details · 48 ratings · 6 reviews. It was on a sabbatical in England in the late s that Suniti Namjoshi discovered feminism – or rather, she discovered that other feminists existed, and many among them shared her thoughts and doubts, her questions and visions. Since then she has been writing–fables, poetry, prose, autobiography, children’s stories– about power, about /5(6). A poet, a fabulist, and a children’s writer, Suniti Namjoshi has written more than thirty books, including Suki and The Fabulous Feminist/5(6).
BRAND NEW, The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader, Suniti Namjoshi, Born in Mumbai in , Suniti Namjoshi is an important figure in contemporary Indian literature in English, a writer whose deep engagement with issues of gender, sexual orientation, cultural identity, and human rights infuses everything she writes. The "Fabulous. Suniti Namjoshi is a poet, a fabulist and a children's writer who has written over thirty books. A selection of her writings is published in The Fabulous Feminist (Zubaan, ). Suki (Zubaan-Penguin, ), a memoir about her beloved cat is both a book about a relationship and an elegy. Her latest work, Foxy Aesop, asks point-blank whether. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.
The Fabulous Feminist published by Zubaan in was a revival of Suniti’s powerful bltadwin.ruhi’s work is a rewriting of canonical literature, of fairy tales and even of Shakespeare. Drawing from Indian and Western fairy tales, Namjoshioffers us an opportunity to consider fairy tales as sites of subversive forces. Namjoshi’s original manuscript title for Feminist Fables was “The Monkey and the Crocodiles”, and I can see why; the story by that name is one of her most representative works. In it, a monkey who has grown up with two crocodile friends near a riverbank decides she wants to explore the world, or at least to follow the river to its source. A feminist with Indian roots, she has explored issues of gender and sexual orientation in her writing, and The Fabulous Feminist presents excerpts from her many works. Namjoshi has dabbled in various literary forms: this book contains fables, poems, short stories, and excerpts from novels.
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