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"Otherness Machines": Bodies, Belonging and Hybridity in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Challenging Trinh Minh-ha’s and Fredric Jameson’s theses on writing by “Third World” authors as, respectively, inevitably autobiographical and metaphorical of nation- building, the author discusses the ways in which the private and the public are represented in Sara Suleri’s autobiographical novel Meatless days (1987). By focusing on the notions of the body and belonging as crucial for the intersections of these two spheres, the article juxtaposes Suleri’s use of these notions with Salman Rushdie’s in Midnight’s Children (1981) and distinguishes between Suleri’s code-switching and Rushdie’s hybridity as key principles in their approaches both to the postcolonial narratives they create and, implicitly, to the diasporic narrative spaces they inhabit.

hybridity, belonging, body, code-switching, diaspora

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