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  • Speaking in Tongues

    Speaking in Tongues The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 3 (2009-02-26) Zadie Smith The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1. Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less…

  • Hybridity gets fashionable

    Hybridity gets fashionable Andréia Azevedo Soares LabLit.com: the culture of science fiction & fact 2009-10-24 The novel White Teeth offers a different perspective on science Even if you haven’t read the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith, you probably remember it—unless you were lying comatose at the beginning of this century. White Teeth was considered…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words

    Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • The beauty of difference

    The beauty of difference In The Fray 2005-12-04 Nicole Marie Pezold Zadie Smith’s latest novel, “On Beauty”, is many things. Chief among them: an homage to differences. For those of mixed heritage — who straddle more than one race, nationality, faith, class, or whatever else — uncovering a coherent identity can be a complicated emotional…

  • Zadie Smith: Critical Essays

    Zadie Smith: Critical Essays Peter Lang Publishing Group March 2008 221 pages Paparback ISBN: 9978-0-8204-8806-6 Edited by: Tracey L. Walters, Associate Professor of Literature Stony Brook University 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…

  • Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art

    Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art Bitch Magazine 2010-01-21 Nadra Kareem Works by two mixed-race Brits—musician Corinne Bailey Rae and writer Zadie Smith—have recently been profiled in the New York Times. Both women navigate their collective white and Caribbean ancestry by embracing hybridity instead of relegating themselves to one…

  • The politics of everyday hybridity: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

    The politics of everyday hybridity: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Wasafiri: The Magazine Of International Contemporary Writing Volume 18, Issue 39 Summer 2003 pages 11-17 DOI: 10.1080/02690050308589837 Laura Moss, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Read the entire article here.

  • White Teeth: A Novel

    White Teeth: A Novel Vintage an imprint of Random House 2001-06-12 464 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70386-7 (0-375-70386-1) Zadie Smith On New Year’s morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie–working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt–is calling…

  • ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

    ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…