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Feminist Fablesby Suniti Namjoshi |
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There was once a man who thought he could do anything, even be a woman. So he acquired a baby, changed its diapers and fed the damn thing three times a night. He did all the housework, was deferential to men, and got worn out. But he had a brother, Jack Cleverfellow, who hired a wife and got it all done.
Suniti Namjoshi is elegant and subversive in creating new patterns of meaning through stories that are simultaneously spare and full of richness. An ingenious reworking of fairy tales from East and West.
‘Her imagination soars to breathtaking heights … she has the enviable skill of writing stories that are as entertaining as they are thought-provoking.’ —Kerry Lyon, Australian Book Review
‘… a beautifully composed book that simultaneously entertains and provokes.’ —The Artful Reporter
‘In their timeless sweep through past, present and even future worlds, they invent a mythology which is creative … with wit, style and deep feeling.’ —RFR-DRF, Canada
‘The “voice” is there, helpfully warm, wrapping around us in a friendly tone. In our own India katha tone, telling us fables.’ —The Times of India
Feminist Fables represents an ingenious reworking of fairytales. Greek and Sanskrit mythology, mixed with the author's original material and vivid imagination. This book is an indispensible feminist classic.
Each tale works against lazy credulity, each line characterised by a pithy feistiness that unseats assumptions of 'proper' story-telling and more particularly its ends.
- Jennifer Cooke, Australian Bookseller and Publisher
Suniti Namjoshi has three other books published by Spinifex Press, Goja, St Suniti and the Dragon and Building Babel. She is also a contributor to CyberFeminism.
Feminist Fables has been translated into
ITALIAN and KOREAN
Visit Suniti's Home Page to find out more about her.
Read the abstracts from thePolitics of Cyberfeminism Conference at which Suniti Namjoshi and other Spinifex authors Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Dale Spender, Rye Senjen, Jane Guthrey, Beryl Fletcher and Suniti Namjoshi were speakers, on Saturday 21 September 1996 at Deakin University.
Territory:World
Italy: Supernova Edizione
Korea: Chaek Se Cang
Netherlands: Xantippe
India: Penguin
All rights:Spinifex Press
