Synopses & Reviews
Filled with characters from fairy tales and myth, this book is unique in that the author invites readers to contribute their speculations to the Spinifex web site.
Review
“Suniti Namjoshi is an inspired fabulist.” —Marina Warner
Synopsis
This fabulous new book comes from a writer whose work spans continents and worlds. In Building Babel, Namjoshi explores through characters from fairy tales and myth, how one might go about developing a new culture out of the shards of another. In the world of Babel, time, power, and the discipline of love come under scrutiny. It is an extended fable, that includes a final interactive chapter with an invitation from the Spinifex Home Page for readers to contribute their work.
The strength of Namjoshi's work lies in the fact that she challenges a normative stance based on white, western, masculine artifacts by drawing on Hindu, poetic and feminist traditions, and shows how an alternative approach to electronic aesthetics might be developed.