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Zadie Smith: Critical Essays<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Lang Publishing Group<\/a>
\nMarch 2008
\n221 pages
\nPaparback ISBN: 9978-0-8204-8806-6<\/p>\n

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Edited by:<\/p>\n

Tracey L. Walters<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Literature
\nStony Brook University<\/em><\/p>\n

Zadie Smith: Critical Essays<\/em> is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith<\/a>‘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.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n