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Volume : II, Issue : VII, August - 2012 Black British Identities In Andrea Levy's ' Small Island' And Zadie Smith's 'white Teeth' S. P. Rajguru DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Andrea Levy's Small Island and Zadie Smith's White Teeth are contemporary novels by recognized women writers in the British literary panorama who, even though born in England, are linked to ethnic group of the Caribbean Islands. Accordingly, these novels have been studied in relation to postcolonial writing and tradition with the diasporic perspectives and their quest for identity. We shall argue that they address issues that go beyond the logic of post-colonialism, question categories such as insiders and outsiders and offer a contesting view of Britain. We shall put forward that these novels depict the plurality of ways in which ethnically diverse people live, narrate and make sense of their multicultural experiences. By so doing, they problematise a homogenous view of British identity, they celebrate the 'third space' and they provide a dynamic representation of contemporary British society. In such a setting, identities are presented as fluid and spaces as continuously negotiated. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : S. P. Rajguru, (2012). Black British Identities In Andrea Levy's ' Small Island' And Zadie Smith's 'white Teeth'. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VII, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3774.pdf References : - 1.Levy, Andrea: Small Island. London: Review, 2004.
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