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![]() ![]() ![]() In ‘From the Panchatantra’ Namjoshi calls to our immediate attention to the desire for a male child that runs through the country and through its tales. She understands their intermixed nature and the predicament it creates for an individual. What is striking about Namjoshi’s work is the way she always looks at identity collectively and does not treat religious, sexual, racial, class and caste identity as separate strands. ![]() Namjoshi gives us subversive popular Hindu Indian fairy tales, those from the Panchatantra. Though Jack Zipes and other scholars have pointed out the subversive potential of fairy tales, they are restricted to western fairy tales. The Fabulous Feministpublished by Zubaan in 2012 was a revival of Namjoshi’s powerful work which is a rewriting of canonical literature, of fairy tales and even of Shakespeare.ĭrawing from Indian and Western fairy tales, Namjoshi offers us an opportunity to consider fairy tales as sites of subversive forces. Suniti Namjoshi’s work has always been one to dismantle established norms of gender, sexuality and even literature. ![]()
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