Zadie Smith : New Perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birlik, Nurten.

Contributor:

Birlik

Series:

Twenty-First Century Perspectives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Zadie, 1975-.

English literature--21st century.

English literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Local Subjects:

Smith, Zadie, 1975-.

Genre:

Essays

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different angles and contains chapters on her novels, short stories, her play, and essay collections.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of contributors

Series editors' preface

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: New relationalities in Zadie Smith's works

Retrospection, belatedness, and nostalgia in White Teeth

Can we really escape the past? Cultural memory and motherhood in White Teeth

'I mourn, therefore I am': textualization of grief in The Autograph Man

'I could not get from him what I wanted': on family, fragments, and foundations in 'Hanwell in Hell'

Reading otherness and finding beauty in On Beauty

The challenges of (new) cosmopolitanism: NW as contemporary urban epic

Incompetent mothers and the 'good enough' father in Swing Time

From London to New York-at the juncture of spaces and selves: Grand Union: Stories

'Contested spaces', conflict, and stability: the socio-structural politics of urban spaces in Zadie Smith's selected essays

Reflections on Intimations: a social-historical analysis

Mastering the art of the short story

The Wife of Willesden: a subversive subject position

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5261-7773-0

1-5261-7775-7

9781526177735

OCLC:

1584461940