Annotation. An original imagination full of surprises from Beowulf to Bangladesh.

Feminist Fables is a reworking of fairy tale s and mixes mythology with the author''s original material an d imagination to make this a feminist classic. '

It was on a sabbatical in England in the late seventies 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 inequality, about oppression, effectively using the power of language and the literary tradition to expose what she finds absurd and unacceptable. This new collection brings together in one volume a huge range of Namjoshi’s writings, starting with her classic collection, Feminist Fables, and coming right up to her latest work. Published by Zubaan.

Accompanied by an elephant, an ant, and a one-eyed monkey, Princess Aditi goes on a magical journey in search of a wayward dragon who holds the key to her future.