Multicultural Conviviality, Diasporic Tension and Local Spaces in White Teeth
Different writers have contrasted critical reactions on London as being a multicultural city after the end of the British Empire. On the one hand, it is seen as a failure by critics such as Stuart Hall due to ethnic turmoil. On the other hand, Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth reconfigures “local” spa...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Different writers have contrasted critical reactions on London as being a multicultural city after the end of the British Empire. On the one hand, it is seen as a failure by critics such as Stuart Hall due to ethnic turmoil. On the other hand, Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth reconfigures “local” spaces/places as dynamic sites of multicultural “conviviality.” This article addresses Smith’s engagement with diaspora and identity by focusing on spatiality. The article also elucidates how a dense web of micro-spaces, places and “non-places,” where a diasporic character is free to develop multiple affiliations away from the intricacies of the past (colonial)/present (After Empire), depicts London in fiction through the use of hybrid writing. An emphasis will be placed on how London’s urbanscape has transformed in the post-imperial context. |
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