Goja: An Autobiographical Myth

by Suniti Namjoshi

This story of a native Indian poet living and writing in the West discusses class privilege and poverty, language and literacy, and the contradictions that make up the confusing patterns of her life.

Genres: LGBT, Memoir, Queer, Lesbian

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

Suniti Namjoshi is a poet, children's author, and teacher. She ran a collaborative fiction site in the late nineties called The Reader's Text of Building Babel. She lives in England with her partner Gillian Hanscombe.

Reviews

[H · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful genre-mingling meditation on—on what?—on class and ethncity and the construction of identity, the process of growing up and coming to terms with where one has come from. Humor and myth and a rigorous consciousness; one hopes to learn to see one's own life with this vision.

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brutally honest reverie about class issues.