Editing Sara Suleri Goodyear

{{Short description|Pakistani-American author and academic (1953–2022)}}
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{{Infobox person
| birth_name         = Sara Suleri
| name               =
| image              =
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| birth_date         = {{nowrap|{{Birth date|mf=yes|1953|6|12}}}}
| birth_place        = [[Karachi]], [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]]
| death_date         = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|mf=yes|2022|3|20|1953|6|12}}}}
| death_place        = [[Bellingham, Washington]], US
| nationality        = [[Pakistani]], [[Americans|American]]
| alma_mater         = [[Kinnaird College]] (BA)<br />[[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]] (MA)<br />[[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] (PhD)
| occupation         = Professor, writer
| known_for          = Founding editor of the ''[[Yale Journal of Criticism]]''
| notable_works      = ''Meatless Days''
| employer           = [[Yale University]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|Austin Goodyear|1993|2005|end=died}}
| partner            =
| children           =
| father             = [[Z. A. Suleri]]
}}

'''Sara Goodyear''' ({{nee}} '''Suleri'''; June 12, 1953 – March 20, 2022)<ref name="Sanga">{{cite book|editor-last1=Sanga|editor-first1=Jaina C.|title=South Asian novelists in English : an A-to-Z guide|date=2003|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=0313318859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlpKOzsOc-IC&q=austin+goodyear+sara+suleri&pg=PA272|access-date=April 18, 2016}}</ref> was a Pakistan-born American author and professor of [[English studies|English]] at [[Yale University]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Sara Goodyear|url=http://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-professors-emeritus/sara-goodyear|website=english.yale.edu|publisher=[[Yale University]]|access-date=April 18, 2016}}</ref> where her fields of study and teaching included [[Romantic poetry|Romantic]] and [[Victorian era|Victorian]] poetry and an interest in [[Edmund Burke]]. Her special concerns included postcolonial literature and theory, contemporary cultural criticism, literature, and law. She was a founding editor of the ''[[Yale Journal of Criticism]]'', and served on the editorial boards of ''YJC'', ''[[The Yale Review]]'', and ''[[Transition Magazine|Transition]]''.

==Early life and education==
Suleri was born in [[Karachi]], [[Dominion of Pakistan]] (now Pakistan), one of six children, to a Welsh mother, Mair Jones,<ref name="Sanga"/> an English professor,<ref name="Parameswaran">{{cite news|last1=Parameswaran|first1=Rajesh|title=In A Vivid Memoir of Life in Pakistan, A Vortex of Tragedies|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/04/07/176053587/in-a-vivid-memoir-of-life-in-pakistan-a-vortex-of-tragedies|access-date=April 18, 2016|work=NPR.org|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> and a Pakistani father, [[Z. A. Suleri]] (1913–1999),<ref>{{Citation | title =Commonwealth: Biographies | publisher =Société d'études des pays du Commonwealth  | series =5 | volume =24 | year =2001 | id =4dkHAQAAMAAJ }}</ref> a notable political [[Political journalism|journalist]], [[Conservatism in Pakistan|conservative]] writer, author, and the [[Pakistan Movement]] [[:Category:Pakistan Movement activists|activist]] regarded as one of the pioneers of [[List of newspapers in Pakistan|print]] [[Media of Pakistan|journalism]] in Pakistan, and authored various history and political books on [[Pakistan]] as well as [[Islam in South Asia|Islam]] in the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref name="State University of New York Press">{{cite book|last=Ponzanesi|first=Sandra|title=Paradoxes of postcolonial culture contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora|year=2004|publisher=State University of New York Press|location=Albany|isbn=0791462013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GP89H0AlA68C&q=z+a+suleri+born+1913&pg=PA67}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

She had her early education in London and attended secondary school in [[Lahore]]. She received her B.A. at [[Kinnaird College]], also in [[Lahore]], in 1974. Two years later, she was awarded an M.A. from [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]], and went on to graduate with a PhD from [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] in 1983.<ref name="Sanga"/>

==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"/>

==Published works==
* ''Meatless Days.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, {{ISBN|978-0-226-77981-2}}
* ''The Rhetoric of English India.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-226-77983-6}}
* ''Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-226-30401-4}}

==Personal life==
In 1993, Suleri married Austin Goodyear (c. 1920–2005) of the [[Goodyear family (New York)|Goodyear family]].<ref name="Niaz">{{cite news|last1=Niaz|first1=Anjum|title=Women of Pakistan – Sara Suleri Goodyear – Boys Will Be Boys|url=http://kazbar.org/jazbah/bookbwb.php|access-date=April 18, 2016|publisher=kazbar.org|date=November 23, 2003|archive-date=March 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323021605/http://kazbar.org/jazbah/bookbwb.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> Goodyear had three children from his first marriage to Louisa Robins (1920–1992),<ref>{{cite news|title=Louisa R. Goodyear |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22418165.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529073206/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22418165.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 29, 2016|access-date=April 14, 2016|publisher=[[The Buffalo News]]|date=August 2, 1992}}</ref> the granddaughter of [[Thomas Robins (inventor)|Thomas Robins Jr]];<ref name="MrsThomasRobinsJr">{{cite news|title=MRS. THOMAS ROBINS JR.|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/13/81791744.html?pageNumber=23|access-date=April 14, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 13, 1962}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Marriage Announcement|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/12/20/112735552.html?pageNumber=32|access-date=April 14, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 20, 1939}}</ref> the eldest, Grace Rumsey Goodyear (b. 1941), is married to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt III]] (b. 1938), the grandson of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Grace Goodyear, Student at Smith, Will Be Married; Sophomore and Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt 3d Engaged to Wed|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/12/82123468.html?pageNumber=39|access-date=April 14, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 12, 1962}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Grace R. Goodyear Is Married; Becomes Bride of Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt 3d|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/19/82045381.html?pageNumber=26|access-date=April 14, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 19, 1962}}</ref>

Suleri and Goodyear remained married until his death on August 14, 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=AUSTIN GOODYEAR|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2008/09/25/obituaries/austin-goodyear/|access-date=April 18, 2016|newspaper=[[The Bangor Daily News]]|date=September 25, 2008}}</ref> Goodyear died of [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] on March 20, 2022, at her home in [[Bellingham, Washington]], at the age of 68.<ref>{{cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |title=Sara Suleri Goodyear Dies at 68; Known for Memoir of Pakistan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/books/sara-suleri-goodyear-dead.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 28, 2022 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |url-access=limited}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/pakistan/literature/suleri/ssov.html Sara Suleri: An Overview], scholars.nus.edu.sg. Accessed 30 March 2022.

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