Editing Sara Suleri Goodyear (section)

==Career and major works==
Suleri taught for two years at [[Williams College]] in [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]], before she moved to Yale and began teaching there in 1983.<ref name="Sanga"/> Suleri was a founding editor of the ''Yale Journal of Criticism''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Yu |first=Isaac |title=Sara Suleri Goodyear, professor emeritus of English and author of Meatless Days, dies at 68 |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/27/sara-suleri-goodyear-professor-emeritus-of-english-and-author-of-meatless-days-dies-at-68%EF%BF%BC/ |work=Yale Daily News |date=March 27, 2022 |access-date=March 29, 2022}}</ref>

Suleri's 1989 memoir, ''Meatless Days'', is an exploration of the complex interweaving of national history and personal biography which was widely and respectfully reviewed.<ref>Henry Louis Gates Jr., "Remembrance of Things Pakistani:
Sara Suleri Makes History", ''Village Voice Literary Supplement'', December 1989, pp. 37–38; Candia McWilliam, "Jazzy, Jyoti, Jase and Jane", Rev. of ''Meatless Days'' and ''Jasmine'' by Bharati Mukherjee, ''London Review of Books'', May 10, 1990, pp. 23–4; and Daniel Wolfe, "Talking Two Mother Tongues", Rev. of Meatless Days, ''New York Times Book Review'', June 4, 1989, p. 30.</ref> An edition of the book, with an introduction by [[Kamila Shamsie]], was published in the Penguin Women Writers series in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Introducing the 'Penguin Women Writers' series: A Q&A with assistant editor Isabel Wall |url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/introducing-the-penguin-women-writers-series-a-qa-with-assistant-editor-isabel-wall/ |publisher=[[London School of Economics]] |date=March 25, 2018 |access-date=March 29, 2022}}</ref>

Her 1992 ''The Rhetoric of English India'' was well received in scholarly circles. One critic, for instance, said recent scholarship by [[Edward Said]], [[Homi K. Bhabha|Homi Bhabha]], [[Gauri Viswanathan]], and [[Jacques Derrida]] has "reformulated the [[paradigmatic analysis|paradigmatic]] assumptions of colonial [[cultural studies]]", and the book was an "important addition to such scholarship". The "unconventionality of some of her selections brings a breath of fresh air to a field prone to turn, time and again, to the same weary list of standard texts."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chacko |first=Mathew |date=1993 |title=Review of The Rhetoric of English India |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3201105 |journal=South Atlantic Review |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=113–115 |doi=10.2307/3201105 |jstor=3201105 |issn=0277-335X}}</ref> However, an historian took Suleri to task for the "casual manner in which she forms important generalizations without benefit of hard data". He concludes, that "This is not to say that Suleri's work is totally without substance or that all of her insights are without value. No doubt, she is a sensitive literary critic who would be bored with the kind of detailed monographs historians and ethnographic anthropologists do as a matter of course."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kopf |first=David |date=1993 |title=Review of The Rhetoric of English India |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/605403 |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=113 |issue=3 |pages=476–478 |doi=10.2307/605403 |jstor=605403 |issn=0003-0279}}</ref>

''Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy'' was published in 2003. The book is a tribute to her father, the political journalist Z. A. Suleri, who was known as [[Pip (Great Expectations)|Pip]] for his "patriotic and preposterous disposition". It also incorporates the story of Suleri's marriage to her husband.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sidhwa |first=Bapsi |title=Sara Suleri Goodyear. Boys Will Be Boys: a Daughter's Elegy |journal=World Literature Today |date=September 2004 |volume=78 |issue=3–4 |page=88|doi=10.2307/40158524 |jstor=40158524 }}</ref>

[[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]] has described Suleri as "a [[postcolonial]] [[Marcel Proust|Proust]] to [[Salman Rushdie|Rushdie]]'s phantasmagorical [[Thomas Pynchon|Pynchon]]."<ref name="Sanga"/>