{"product_id":"9789381017333","title":"The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fabulous Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi’s writings, starting with her most famous collection, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Fables\u003c\/i\u003e, and including excerpts from \u003ci\u003eSaint Suniti and the Dragon, Mothers of Maya Dip, From the Bedside Book of Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e, and her series of “Aditi” books for children, such as \u003ci\u003eAditi and the Thames Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere readers will find her fables, poetry, prose autobiography, and children’s stories, works that are both playful and deeply serious. In these beautifully composed and entertaining works, she ingeniously reworks fairytales, Greek and Sanskrit mythology, literary monsters such as Grendel’s Mother, and icons such as Saint Sebastian, all stitched together with her vivid imagination and wisdom. Writing with insight and wit about power, about inequality, and about oppression, Namjoshi brilliantly uses language and the literary tradition to expose what she finds absurd and unacceptable in modern life. This provocative and entertaining collection will be welcomed by Namjoshi’s fans and admirers of the feminist intellectual tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Mumbai in 1941, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zubaan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060674052336,"sku":"9789381017333","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789381017333_p0.jpg?v=1763674587","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789381017333","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}