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'Autobiographies' of immigrant women writers secured a prominent place in the realm of women's autobiography and the autobiographies of South Asian immigrant women writers acquired a special significance. The personal and communal identity crises resulted from migrations, the pangs of displacement, the memories and recollections of home lands, the struggle to cope with the new world and finally the active response to the new world by the reconstruction and relocation of identities are some of the striking features of 'expatriate writing'. All these are fully articulated in Sara Suleri's autobiography Meatless Days. It is largely a sociological and ethnographic document and analyses female experiences vis-a-vis political, social, religious circumstances.