SAMRA HAFEEZ2025-11-292025-11-292018https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/13700This study formally analyzes two nonfiction works of Sara Suleri as examples of memoir writing. Memoir, a sub-genre of creative nonfiction, is defined as “an account written by an individual about their personal life or experiences” (oxforddictionaries.com). Suleri’s works have not yet been analyzed through the lens of memoir as a genre. I have attempted to do that according to the qualities set down by the practitioners of memoir. Even though Suleri’s work have been described as memoirs, no one has done in-depth analysis of these two texts in the light of the theories of memoir writing as a genre defined by practitioners in the field of creative nonfiction, such as Lee Gutkind, Judith Barrington, Philip Lopate, Bill Roorbach, William Zinsser etc. Claiming Suleri’s memoirs as pieces of creative nonfiction explains these works in the light of the theories of different practitioners of the fourth genre also known as creative nonfiction. To quite an extent, writing a memoir can be an act of re-living and re-experiencing the past by the process of recall. Suleri attempts to find a relationship with her past in these works. Her memoirs Meatless Days and Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter’s Elegy revolve around multiple phases of her life. She has penned her experiences in an artful and fictionalized manner. In her memoirs, Suleri has sketched the picture of her life in such a way that it reveals different meanings centered on her individual memories. She has defined her past through the echoes of the voices and the silence of her characters. This study fills the gap in the critical appreciation of Suleri’s memoirs to date.enThesis