![]() The conventions of the traditional storytelling form and its powerful rhythm generate a momentum.įor a good example of what she means, consider her little story “Lost Species”, which was inspired by a Henri Rousseau painting of two unidentifiable beasts peering out of a jungle. ![]() And once the creature starts to speak, the fable develops its own logic. ![]() The creature looking out is so eloquent that the fable begins to write itself. It’s true the fable is a didactic form, but I don’t sit down and say, “I am now going to write a fable making this point or pointing to that moral.” More often than not – for me anyway – a fable starts with an image. ![]() In her short Introduction to a section of the just-published The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader, Namjoshi writes: ![]()
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