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Zadie Smith : critical essays / edited by Tracey L. Walters.

Walters, Tracey Lorraine. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780820488066 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0820488062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Tracey L. Walters -- Sect. I. Postcolonial and Postmodernist Readings of Zadie Smith's Novels -- Ch. 1. The Flipping Coin: The Modernist and Postmodernist Zadie Smith / Matthew Paproth -- Ch. 2. On Beauty and Being Postcolonial: Aesthetics and Form in Zadie Smith / Ulka Anjaria -- Ch. 3. The Impossible Self and the Poetics of the Urban Hyperreal in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man / Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga -- Ch. 4. "Only Connect": Intertextuality and Identity in Zadie Smith's On Beauty / Maeve Tynan -- Ch. 5. Colonization in Reverse: White Teeth as Caribbean Novel / Raphael Dalleo -- Sect. II. Race Mixing: Britishness, Blackness, and the Construction of Racial Identities --

Ch. 6. "Gimme Shelter": Zadie Smith's On Beauty / Susan Alice Fischer -- Ch. 7. Still Mammies and Hos: Stereotypical Images of Black Women in Zadie Smith's Novels / Tracey L. Walters -- Ch. 8. From the Dispossessed to the Decolonized: From Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners to Zadie Smith's "Hanwell in Hell" / Sharon Raynor -- Ch. 9. Red and Yellow, Black and White: Color-Blindness as Disillusionment in Zadie Smith's "Hanwell in Hell" / Lexi Stuckey -- Ch. 10. The Root Canals of Zadie Smith: London's Intergenerational Adaptation / Kris Knauer -- Ch. 11. Fundamental Differences in Zadie Smith's White Teeth / Z. Esra Mirze -- Ch. 12. Simulated Optimism: The International Marketing of White Teeth / Katarzyna Jakubiak.