Zadie Smith: critical essays

Introduction / Tracey L Walters

Section 1. Postcolonial and postmodernist readings of Zadie Smith's novels

The flipping coin: The modernist and postmodernist Zadie Smith / Matthew Paproth, Southern Illinois University

On Beaty and being postcolonial: Aesthetics and form in Zadie Smith / Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University

The impossible self and the poetics of the urban hyperreal in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man / Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

"Only Connect": Intertextuality and identity in Zadie Smith's On Beauty / Maeve Tynan, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland

Colonization in reverse: White Teeth as Caribbean novel / Raphael Dalleo, Florida Atlantic University

Section 2. Race mixing: Britishness, blackness, and the construction of racial identities

"Gimme shelter": Zadie Smith's On Beauty / Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College (CUNY)

Still mammies and hos: stereotypical Images of black women in Zadie Smith's novels / Tracey L Walters, (SUNY) Stony Brook University

From the dispossessed to the decolonized: From Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners to Zadie Smith's "Hanwell in Hell" / Sharon Raynor, Johnson C. Smith University

Red and yellow, black and white: color-blindness as disillusionment in Zadie Smith's "Hanwell in Hell" / Lexi Stuckey, University of Central Oklahoma

The root canals of Zadie Smith: London's intergenerational adaptation / Kris Knauer, Morley Coege, London, UK

Fundamental differences in Zadie Smith's White Teeth / Esra mirze, University of Tampa

Simulated optimism: The international marketing of White Teeth / Kasia Jakubiak, Millersville University.