Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
The riotous and tortured
histories of the Joneses and the Iqbals are fundamentally intertwined, capturing an empire's worth
of cultural identity, history, and hope.
Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in
North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a
liberal public school, a sleek science institute. A winning debut in every respect, White Teeth
marks the arrival of a wondrously talented writer who takes on the big themes --faith, race, gender,
history, and culture-- and triumphs
Cultural construction and the `beauty myth'.Zadie Smith in her book On Beauty compares
beauty to be akin to art a western myth in which we console ourselves and make ourselves.
24. Postmodernism as a life-style. Fiction that goes beyond literature. Jeanette Winteron:
self-conscious, self-advertising writer. Winterson's postmodernism: gender blending,