TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tracey L. Walters
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Zadie Smith
T2  - Critical Essays
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105712
N2  - Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith’s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race, either by deconstructing notions of race or interrogating the complexity of biracial identity; and how Smith takes on contemporary debates concerning notions of Britishness, Englishness, and Black Britishness. Some essays also consider the shifting identities adopted by those who identify with both British and West Indian, South Asian, or East Asian ancestry. Other essays explore Smith’s contemporary postcolonial approach to Britain’s colonial legacy, and the difference between how immigrants and first-generation British-born children deal with cultural alienation and displacement. This thought-provoking collection is a much-needed critical tool for students and researchers in both contemporary British literature and Diasporic literature and culture.
KW  - Smith, Zadie, Aufsatzsammlung, Literature, Britishness, Black British, Post Colonial, Multicultural, Cultural Hybridity, National Identity
LA  - English
ER  -