Sökning: "Zadie Smith"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden Zadie Smith.

1. 1. The Crisis of Identity in a Multicultural Society : A Multicultural Reading of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

   Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Shahyan Rizgar; [2016]
   Nyckelord :multiculturalism; Zadie Smith; identity; roots; history; culture; ethnicity; religion;

   Sammanfattning : This essay, on Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, deals with the characters’ identities and the influences of multiculturalism on their complex identities. It also discusses the role of the characters roots and history in constructing their identities and how they have made life problematic for the characters in multicultural London. LÄS MER

3. 2. Identitetens pris : Kritik, priser och kapitalcirkulation på det litterära fältet

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Johanna Bengtsson; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Literary awards; literary prizes; Man Booker Prize; Orange prize; Costa Awards; literary values; literary criticism; reception studies; book market; Ian McEwan; Hilary Mantel; Cólm Tóibín; Zadie Smith; sociology of literature; canon; identity; Litterära priser; Man Bookerpriset; Orange-priset; Costa-priset; litterära värden; litteraturkritik; receptionsstudier; bokmarknad; Ian McEwan; Hilary Mantel; Cólm Tóibín; Zadie Smith; litteratursociologi; kanon; identitet;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to study the construction of literary values. I have been looking at how literature awarded with sponsored literary prizes has been reviewed in four major English and American newspapers. I have been studying the reception of literature by Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín and Zadie Smith between 2000 and 2012. LÄS MER

4. 3. Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Suzana Abrahamsson; [2013-04-16]
   Nyckelord :Postcolonial; Multiculturalism; Immigration; Identity; Ethnicity; “Race”; “Englishness”;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different generations and various ethnic backgrounds in London – one on the most “multicultural” cities in the world – the novel effectively questions the utopian idea of a “Happy Multicultural Land”, that is to say a trouble-free harmonious society. LÄS MER

5. 4. Unlocking The Secret History: A New Perspective in College Fiction

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Martin Lind; [2009]
   Nyckelord :Donna Tartt; The Secret History; Zadie Smith; college; The Human Stain; On Beauty; Ravelstein; university; Philip Roth; Saul Bellow; academe; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

7. 5. Split Identities, Hybridity and mimicry within the characters in White Teeth

   Kandidat-uppsats, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

   Författare :Anna Lindh; [2007]
   Nyckelord :hybridity; mimicry; White teeth; Zadie Smith;

   Sammanfattning : The novel White teeth by Zadie Smith has been the object of my study in this essay. The aim of this study was to explore what the text communicated to the reader about hybridity and mimicry in the portrayal of some of the characters in the two families in White Teeth. LÄS MER