The Blue Donkey Fables

Title

en_US The Blue Donkey Fables

Description

en_US Suniti Namjoshi

Creator

en_US Namjoshi, Suniti See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Higgins, Beth

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:02Z

en_US 2003-09

en_US 1988

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1988

Abstract

en_US Namjoshi is also the authoress of Feminist Fables, listed under 1981/90. Here we have an enjoyable collection of poems and stories. The first series of fables is Thurberesque: What happens when a town has a blue donkey? In fact the blue donkey returns in many of the stories later in the book. Groups of poems and groups of prose fables tend to alternate in the course of the book. What Namjoshi offers here as fables may be rather parables in the sense I have tried to promote, i.e. past-tense fictional stories that question and challenge the hearer's or reader's values. The set of poems beginning with Lion Skin (33) mixes in, I believe, the fable about The Lion in Love. In any case, it becomes quite erotic here. I read the first half of this book. One of my favorites is Magpie (55). This paperback is, alas, falling apart. Shipping for this book cost six times the book's very reasonable auction price!

Identifier

en_US 0704341158 (pbk.)

en_US 5126 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80711

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Women's Press

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR9499.3.N258 B5 1988 See all items with this value

en_US Suniti Namjoshi See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole