An Intimate Disconnection: Sara Suleri and the ‘great machine at the heart of things: h-i-s-t-o-r-y’

Abstract

This paper considers Sara Suleri's representation of her mother in Meatless Days, a memoir that offers an antihistorical perspective. At the same time, the mother-daughter relationship is grounded in postcolonial theory and Suleri's self-conscious mode of self-representation as a postcolonial academic.