Hybridity, Strangeness, and Foreignness in Suniti Namjoshi’s Fabulist Imagination

This article explores how Namjoshi’s diasporic narrative is alive with lesbian- feminist subjectivities that spark the creation of new spaces, postcolonial hybridity, and metamorphosing bodies and identities. Identifying the author’s need to give voice to her lesbian-feminist politics as the most cr...

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Autor principal: Vincent-Prabakar, Suhasini
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:This article explores how Namjoshi’s diasporic narrative is alive with lesbian- feminist subjectivities that spark the creation of new spaces, postcolonial hybridity, and metamorphosing bodies and identities. Identifying the author’s need to give voice to her lesbian-feminist politics as the most crucial aspect of her writing, we shall see how Namjoshi configures European and Eastern fabulist traditions, subverts known forms of authority and underscores the need for reconfiguring new worlds.