suniti namjoshi feminist fables analysis

A deep engagement with issues of gender, sexual orientation, cultural identity and human rights infuses her work. Her poetry, fables, articles and reviews have been featured in various anthologies and journals in India, Canada, the US, Australia and Britain. She now lives in the UK where she works as a full-time writer. She earned a PhD from McGill University (with a thesis on Ezra Pound), worked at the University of Toronto and later at the Centre for Women’s Studies at Exeter University, UK. She worked in the Indian Administrative Service and in academic posts in India before moving to Montreal. She has several books of verse and fable to her credit. The bo’y hears all the masses asking for its missingīorn in Mumbai in 1941, Suniti Namjoshi is an important writer in contemporary Indian literature in English. The bo’y sees all the gawking at its gloss To turn a bo’y into a lie everyone loves to look at

No matter how many ds fit inside the bo’yīo’y paints its face - what lips on the bo’yīo’y adorns itself with labels written for lovelier frames The bo’y feels that it will never hold the weight of another bo’y inside of it The bo’y feels like it will only ever be empty

So the bo’y is and will only ever be a bo’y Reminds the bo’y that not every bo’y bleedsīo’y has too much and not enough flesh to be her So it taught itself how to graze its skin and cut things off The bo’y did not learn to shave from its father There is both too much and not enough flesh on the bo’y Body without the “d” BY JUSTICE AMEER (Xe, Xem, Xir)

Suniti namjoshi feminist fables analysis