"What's past is prologue": the importance of history in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Title: "What's past is prologue": the importance of history in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Author: Čechová, Natália
Source document: Theory and Practice in English Studies. 2014, vol. 7, iss. 1, pp. [1]-16
Extent
[1]-16
  • ISSN
    1805-0859
Type: Article
Language
English
License: Not specified license
 

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Abstract(s)
The paper is exploring the interconnection of Smith's opening line and the way her immigrant characters from Bangladesh and Jamaica deal with the history of their former home countries as well as their personal histories. It aims to analyse the way Smith points out — through the Iqbal and the Jones family — the history of Great Britain, mainly its colonial era and the effects of subsequent decolonisation on the East Indies and the Caribbean.

References
[1] Arikan, Seda. February 2013. "F'History' and 'Root' in Zadie Smith's White Teeth." The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies. Accessed October 23, 2014. http://www.jasstudies.com/Makaleler/69986385_87Ar%C4%B1kanSeda_S-1679-1696.pdf

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[3] Kipling, Rudyard. The White Man's Burden. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kipling.asp

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[6] Smith, Zadie. 2001. White Teeth. London: Penguin Books.