Building Babel / Suniti Namjoshi.

Author
Namjoshi, Suniti, 1941- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
North Melbourne, Vic., Australia : Spinifex Press, 1996.
Description
1 online resource (xxix, 192 p. ; 21 cm.)

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Subject(s)
Series
South and Southeast Asian literature
Summary note
  • What are the ingredients required for building a new world? Is it order or chaos? Is it power or love? An interactive novel, the author invites readers to contribute their speculations on the Spinifex Home Page about possible worlds that women might inhabit.
  • What are the ingredients required for building a new world? Is it order, or chaos? Is it power or love? Is it simply bricks? How long will it take? And whose vision will it reflect -- the Queen's or the solitary visionary's? A fabulous new book from a writer whose work spans continents and worlds. In the world of Babel, time, power and the discipline of love come under scrutiny. Filled with characters from fairy tales and myth, Suniti Namjoshi follows the trials and tribulations of well-known sisters such as Little Red, Snow White, Crone Kronos, Queen Alice, Sister Solitude and Cinders.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Language note
English
ISBN
1-74219-762-0
OCLC
729551130
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