A Mouthful of Stones in a Mango Leaf: History, Womanhood and Language in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days, a Memoir
Born to a Welsh mother and a Pakistani father in a household of six children, Sara Suleri left Lahore to settle in New Haven. What followed was a tragic story of loss – of people and places and breaks – of countries, relationships and selves.Transposing the dislocation of space and time that she exp...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | Born to a Welsh mother and a Pakistani father in a household of six children, Sara Suleri left Lahore to settle in New Haven. What followed was a tragic story of loss – of people and places and breaks – of countries, relationships and selves.Transposing the dislocation of space and time that she experiences as a postcolonial subject by distorting the syntax of English and by constructing a subtext of tropical landscape, food and habits, Sara Suleri is not so much questioning the Western Canon as competing with the unwritten script of her father’s life and times that he wanted to write in Urdu under the title Boys will be Boys and that she was supposed to translate into English. Sara Suleri’s memoir is a tribute to her journalist father written in her mother’s tongue. |
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