Unveiling Xenophobia: An Examination of Ideological Constructs in Sara Suleri's "Meatless Days”: A post-colonial Perspective

Abstract

Meatless Days has social and political overtones and written in a geographically and temporally dislocated manner. It documents Sara Suleri's recollections and her demonstration against the oppression and subjection of women in Pakistani culture due to erroneous, misunderstood, and incorrect interpretations of Islamic law. Since its founding, patriarchal behaviors have been more prevalent in Pakistani culture, which is a classic patriarchal group. The father of Sara Suleri is a man of words, and he completely understands himself via natural and intuitive speech. Sara Suleri attempted to include that entire condition of circumstances in the novella Meatless Days. In the setting of postcolonial Pakistan, she tells her experience about cultural differences, memories of the past, and her female partners in particular. Sara Suleri's Meatless Days is the main literature chosen for that aim. The theoretical framework used to analyze character from the perspective of Homi K Babha.

Key Words: Meatless Days, Sara Suleri, Postcolonial literature, Patriarchy, Gender oppression, Homi K. Bhabha