Suniti Namjoshi: The Artful Transgressor

Book Details

• Author: C. Vijayasree

• Publisher : Rawat Publications

• Edition: 2001

• Language: English

• ISBN: 8170336783

• Publication Year: 2001

• Release Date: 1 December 2001

• Pages: 192

• Binding: Hardcover

• Package Dimensions: 8.6 × 5.7 × 0.6 inches

• Sale Territory: India

About the Book

Suniti Namjoshi: The Transgressive Spirit is the first full-length critical study of Suniti Namjoshi’s work—an influential voice in contemporary Indian writing in English, with five poetry anthologies and multiple works of fiction to her credit.

Author C. Vijayasree identifies transgression and transformation as the defining features of Namjoshi’s creative output, offering a close, insightful reading that spans her earliest poems to her later prose works like Goja.

Framed within the discourses of feminism, postcolonialism, and diasporic literature, this study examines Namjoshi’s narrative techniques, formal experimentation, revisionist myth-making, diasporic sensibilities, and sexual politics. It also highlights her unique blending of Eastern and Western myths, fables, and cultural frameworks.

A valuable resource for scholars, students, and general readers, the book sheds light on Namjoshi’s fables, feminist reimaginings, and cross-cultural narratives, positioning her as a transformative figure in global literature.

Key Themes

• Feminist and postcolonial literary analysis

• Diasporic identity and cultural hybridity

• Narrative innovation and myth revision

• The role of fables and fabulation in literature

• Suniti Namjoshi’s poetic and fictional evolution

About the Author

C. Vijayasree is Professor of English at Osmania University, Hyderabad, specializing in postcolonial literatures and women’s writing. Her previous works include Robert Browning 2000 (1996), Mulk Raj Anand: The Raj and the Writer (1998), and Remapping Culture: The Nobel Laureates of the Last Decade (1998). She has also co-edited Routes (2000), an anthology of South Indian short stories in English translation, and is currently working on a monograph on Srinivasa Iyengar for Sahitya Akademi.