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 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. 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.

About the Author
The Editor: Tracey L. Walters is Associate Professor of Literature at Stony Brook University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Howard University. She has published a number of essays on Black British literature and culture and has also published essays on Zadie Smith. Her first book, Writing the Classics Black: The Poetic and Political Function of Classical Revision in African American Women's Writing, was published in 2007.


Book Information
ISBN 9780820488066
Author Tracey L. Walters
Format Paperback
Page Count 221
Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Weight(grams) 330g