Feminist Fables

Overview

A reworking of fairy tales from the East and West.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.

Author Biography

Suniti Namjoshi was born in Mumbai, India. She has worked as an Officer in the Indian Administrative Service and in academic posts in India and Canada. From 1972 to 1988, she taught in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and now lives and writes in Devon, England.She has published numerous poems, fables and reviews: in anthologies, collections and literary and Women's Studies journals, in India, Canada, the US and Britain. She has published several books of poetry including The Authentic Lie (1982) and From the Book of Nightmares (1984). Feminist Fables (1981), was reissued by Spinifex Press (1993) and Virago (1994). Her other books include The Conversations of Cow and The Mothers of Maya Diip.  Spinifex published St Suniti and the Dragon in 1993, Building Babel in 1996 and Goja in 2000.Sycorax: New Fables and Poems was published by Penguin, India in 2006. She is also the author of a dozen children's books in the Aditi series published by Tulika Publishers, Chennai.