Sara Suleri Goodyear is Professor of English at Yale University and a founding editor of the Yale Journal of Criticism.  She is the author of The Rhetoric of English India [U. Chicago, 1992] and Meatless Days [U. Chicago, 1989].

"the novel is not about getting inside but is about showing what happened, without explanation, with "no introductions"

(Interview, December 1990 "Novel or Autobiography?")