![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fables are short and simple, often only a few paragraphs long, and have a strong ethical sensibility. ![]() "If something didn't make sense, I wrote a fable about it" (1), she writes in the Introduction to this section, and indeed, many of feminism's primary concerns can be spotted in each text. The first set, simply entitled "Feminist Fables," represents the author's own strategies for negotiating a confusing patriarchal world as a new feminist. While the form of the book lends itself well to collecting Namjoshi's fables and poetry, it does less justice to her longer works, the extracts from which are intellectually interesting, but emotionally unfulfilling.Ī significant part of The Fabulous Feminist is made up of fables, a form to which Namjoshi is particularly drawn. There is certainly a sense of thematic unity to the collection, produced substantially through the author's exploration of morality and immorality, and her almost ubiquitous use of allegory and of animals as characters. Even from its title, The Fabulous Feminist is clear in its philosophy, and takes the reader on a journey through Namjoshi's own experiences with feminism, as told through fables, poetry and several longer works of fiction.Īs a reader that selects material from Namjoshi's body of work, The Fabulous Feminist throws together a range of different books and collections. It is not often that a book falls into my hands that calls itself - consciously and unashamedly - a feminist book. ![]()
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