The greater part of the collected work in this reader consists of these engaging and accessible fables, supplemented by poetry and extracts from longer fictional work. As such, it is an ideal volume for browsing and dipping into rather than for reading from cover to cover. It is not a comprehensive examination of Namjoshi’s feminist ideology, but it works well as a sampler of her ideas and insights.

Her work is imaginative and inspiring; most readers are likely to come across something that will resonate with them either through form, content, character or theme.

..Suniti Namjoshi is widely regarded as a major figure in transnational and post-colonial writing, and deserves to become better known in our country through this Australian imprint. Given the perception of her insights, and the power of her words, I don’t hesitate to recommend The Fabulous Feminist.

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The fable may be a moral-centric form of storytelling, but in the fables that give the collection its name Namjoshi's morals are complex and biting.

Shocking, comical and sobering, these stories straddle Alice’s wonderland and Kafka’s nightmare-land...Think of the vicious wit of Virginia Woolf, laced with the tender melancholia of Hélène Cixous, spiked with the subtle eroticism of Anaïs Nin.

Namjoshi is an Indian writer in English, of a feminist bent. This collection is an introduction to her rich body of work. There are issues of gender, class and colonialism, but treated with imagination and wit. There is much to appeal here.

Not having read Namjoshi before, this collection has been a good introduction to her work, and I’ve particularly being enjoying the extracts from her 1981 book Feminist Fables and from Saint Suniti and the Dragon... Namjoshi compresses a lot of irony or sarcasm into a few pithy lines.

The most intelligent and invigoratingly delightful of our contemporary poets!

I feel my education has been incomplete all these years, because I had never heard of Suniti Namjoshi. A feminist with Indian roots...The Fabulous Feminist presents excerpts from her many works... it succeeded in satisfying my palate and whetting my appetite at the same time, leaving me determined to seek out more complete versions of her work.

Namjoshi is one of the many wonderful Indian authors who slipped into oblivion, and ... who, is rediscovered with grateful surprise by new generations... Namjoshi rewrites well-known stories from the Panchatantra and from Grimm’s fairy tales, and her own fables pack a punch.

Noted poet and writer Suniti Namjoshi’s latest book Blue And Other Stories is a literary treasure.

I recommend this book to all who love to play with words and ideas and to see the world around with fresh, feminist, perspectives.

The poems and short prose excerpts in this selection... are fabulous..Blue donkeys, one-eyed monkeys, lesbian cows and a Saint Suniti are just some of the cast of other-worldly creatures portrayed to expose and convince by irresistible analogy.