EXPLORING MULTICULTURAL ASPECTS IN ZADIE SMITHS WHITE TEETH.
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Zadie Smith made an astonishing debut novel White Teeth, published in 2000, when she was twenty four years old. She deals with many issue connected with living in a multicultural society and with the gap between the first and second generation of immigrants. Zadie Smith?s first novel White Teeth (2000) has been analysed as the diverse and multicultural society of the present-day city of London. The roots and history of the first generation of immigrants have made identity issues for the second generation in the novel. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the aspects of multicultural social space and instability of identity and family relations depicted in the novel. The second generation of immigrants, who live in London, tries to mix the dominant culture (English culture) with their familial culture in order to have a different identity. They also want to escape from their families.
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