{"id":53413,"date":"2017-04-11T20:08:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53413"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:10:47","slug":"zadie-smith-and-multiculturalism-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53413","title":{"rendered":"Zadie Smith and Multiculturalism after Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/zadie-smith-and-multiculturalism-after-brexit\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Zadie Smith and Multiculturalism after Brexit<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaihs.org\" target=\"_blank\">Black Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/merve-fejzula-35483050\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Merve Fejzula<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Cambridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/zadie-smith-and-multiculturalism-after-brexit\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Zadie-Smith-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more than other forms of criticism, outsiders often imagine literary criticism to be free from the vagaries of the present moment. American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump<\/a> and British politician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigel_Farage\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage<\/a>, the former leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Independence_Party\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom Independence Party<\/a>, may intrude on other aspects of life, but surely we can still enjoy the beauty of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Keats\" target=\"_blank\">John Keats\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ode_on_a_Grecian_Urn\" target=\"_blank\">Ode on a Grecian Urn<\/a>\u201d in relative peace. Yet aesthetic appreciation is as subject to Hamlet\u2019s \u201cslings and arrows of outrageous fortune\u201d as anything else, and nowhere does this pliable relationship to literature assert itself more than in the critical reception of authors of color . An illustrative example of this dynamic might be charted through the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zadiesmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zadie Smith<\/a>, presented by the literary world as the \u201cmixed-raced\u201d poster child for the cosmopolitan axis of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/zadie-smith-and-multiculturalism-after-brexit\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000, in a celebratory tone that now seems quaint for its distance from the current moment, Smith was unanimously hailed by critics and readers alike for her debut novel White Teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,26,10],"tags":[26485,26823,1344],"class_list":["post-53413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-black-perspectives","tag-merve-fejzula","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53415,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53413\/revisions\/53415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}