Zadie Smith White Teeth

Heckmann, Christina: Concepts of Home and Belonging in Postcolonial Literature compared in the novels "Small Island" by Andrea Levy and "Whit, GRIN VERLAG, November 2009, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640475933
1. Introduction1.1. Brief introduction to home and belonging as a general ideaHome has a significant function in our lives. Thinking of home we associate notions like shelter and comfort and when we come home we want to feel safe and welcome. John McLeod argues in this sense that to be 'at home' is to occupy a location where we are welcome, where we can be with people very much like ourselves. We are looking for who we are, where we come from and try to find our place in life. When one is born in a country but moves to another where is one's home country then This question is hard to answer, because migration is always a process which implies a struggle of identities. When the 2nd generation is born in the host country- where do they belong if the host country does not accept them as full members The term home is highly complicated in a complex and multicultural world like ours.1.2. Procedure and approach of my analysesI have centered my term paper on an attempt to identify and characterize the concepts of home and belonging in postcolonial literature.Comparing how the idea of home and belonging is presented in the novels White Teeth by Zadie Smith and Small Island by Andrea Levy, I have tried a text- extrinsic approach. Furthermore, I have analysed the authors' intentions with regard to the time of publication and the time of the narrative. However, the main aspect of my analyses is which concepts of home and belonging exist and which of them can be found in the novels of my comparison. I have chosen White Teeth because it is a novel that deals with the colonial past and the postcolonial present and I have selected Small Island because it is a novel that deals with migration in the past. Small Island is set at the beginning of migration when many colonized people came to England. Andrea Levy presents different views, the White and Black British point of view at the beginning of migration. My motivation to compare both novels is to go back to the beginning of colonial migration and to show the difference between the concepts from the past to the present. John McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2000) p. 210.2 Zadie Smith, White Teeth (London: Penguin Books, 2001).

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Werdermann, Elisabeth: Identity in Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" and Hanif Kureishi's "My Beautiful Laundrette" Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V172369, GRIN VERLAG, Juni 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640922387
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Who am I What makes me me These are questions of daily importance to every individual human being. The question of what defines us in our per-sonality cannot be answered in a single sentence, or easily. Multiple external factors from the field of culture such as ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexual orientation or history impinge on who we are, what we identify ourselves or are identified with. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, identity defines Who or what a person or thing is; a distinct impression of a single person or thing presented to or perceived by others; a set of char-acteristics or a description that distinguishes a person from others. Depending on a person's social surroundings with all its cultural identifiers, his or her identity is shaped. In Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth and Hanif Kureishi's screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette identity is presented and problematised as In-betweenness . Both works focus on immigrants and their children, the se-cond generation, and the difficulties they face in their daily life caused by in-betweenness. In-betweenness as a term is quite self-explanatory and depicts ambiguity on several levels like belonging, ethnicity or sexual orientation/ habits, to name only a few. This ambiguity entails the social life of the characters as well as their emotional state. In the context of belonging, it is Cherry, from My Beautiful Laundrette, who first brings the term in-betweenness up:Oh God, I'm so sick of hearing about these in-betweens. People should make up their minds where they are. (Kureishi, p. 37)By this, she labels the subliminal topic of both literary works. With In-betweenness as a special form of identity, this research paper searches for reasons and circumstances, which make the characters in White Teeth and My Beautiful Laundrette feel in-between. On the basis of their behaviour and emotional condition against the background of their cul-tural affiliations, it will also specify the conflicts and probable advantages the state of in-betweenness entails.

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Müller, Claudia: Magischer Realismus in ausgewählten Werken von Zadie Smith und Salman Rushdie, GRIN VERLAG, Februar 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640816129
Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Staatsexamensarbeit möchte ich mich mit Elementen des Magischen Realismus in zwei Romanen der englischsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur auseinandersetzen: Salman Rushdies 1981 erschienenem Roman Midnight's Children und Zadie Smiths Debütroman White Teeth aus dem Jahr 2000. Rushdies Roman wird eindeutig als Werk eingestuft, das Elemente des Magischen Realismus enthält. Bei Smith ist dies bislang nicht der Fall - unter anderem auch deswegen, weil die Literaturkritik sich bislang insgesamt noch relativ wenig mit ihrem Werk beschäftigt hat. So wurde im Zusammenhang mit White Teeth zwar verschiedentlich erwähnt, dass der Roman Elemente des Magischen Realismus enthalte, eingehendere Untersuchungen dieser Behauptung stehen aber bis jetzt noch aus. Diese Lücke zu schließen, soll in der vorliegenden Examensarbeit versucht werden.

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König, Florian: The Importance of Mangal Pande (to Samad) in Zadie Smith's 'White Teeth' GRIN VERLAG, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 364046205X
[...]The main goal of this paper should be an in depth look at the character of the Muslim waiter Samad Iqbal and his fixation upon his antecedent Mangal Pande who allegedly started a revolutionary uprising in India in 1857 and was therefore executed by the British colonial rule. The initial analysis of the topic allowed the perception of an insufficient material concerning the scholarly treatment of Pande's function in White Teeth. Therefore, his representation through the characters perceptions and his role in the novel will be analysed. The initial point of such research refers to key elements of motifs and narrative structure Smith's; namely an issue of belonging and integration, the significance of (both personal and collective) history and one's roots. At first, the clear historical background, just as the role and significance of objective history, i.e. historic facts, would be analysed. Subsequently, I will discuss the role Mangal Pande plays in Samad's life and the significance history plays for him. Following this discussion, I will try to answer the question how other characters think and feel about Mangal Pande. In a concluding chapter, I will try to determine what the importance of this 'factual' predecessor to Samad is and discuss the importance of history, family backgrounds and cultural legacies for immigrants who are stuck in a crisis of identity in their new 'homeland.'

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