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Title
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The Blue Donkey Fables
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Description
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Suniti Namjoshi
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Creator
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Namjoshi, Suniti
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Contributor
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Higgins, Beth
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:29:02Z
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2003-09
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1988
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:29:02Z
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Date Issued
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1988
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Abstract
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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!
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Identifier
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0704341158 (pbk.)
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5126 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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The Women's Press
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London
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Subject
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PR9499.3.N258 B5 1988
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Suniti Namjoshi
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole