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Reviews of Meatless Days

  •  In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's  independence with her own most intimate memories - of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z. A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and  five siblings; and of her own passage to the West.   -- University of Chicago Press


    • "Dazzling.... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon." - Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune from Sara Suleri Goodyear
Criticism

' Suleri [says] that any further fiction that she may write inevitably will be about Pakistan via the West or vice versa. In any case, Suleri says her work sits "between genres," at once neither fiction nor non-fiction. "There's a lot of fiction in it. Some of the characters I invented, some of the incidents I invented. Minor things, when it was necessary," she says. Lest the reader assume entire key passages were fabricated, Suleri admits she changed mostly temporal elements such as chronology. For example, she is not sure that when her mother was teaching Emma that she was involved in the theater: "I compressed time, brought it closer together" so that the scene would work, she says (interview, December 1990; Yishane Lee Sara Suleri, Salman Rushdie, and Post-Colonialism).

For further studies
The following are good student papers from Brown U., for more papers please go to Meatless Days:_Overview page from Brown U.:

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