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Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty
- Author(s):
- Kanika Batra (see profile)
- Date:
- 2010
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- Education, Higher, Academic freedom, Africa, Area studies, Caribbean literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Black studies, british literature, cosmopolitanism, Postcolonialism, transnational, Academe, Africana studies, Postcolonial literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6ZX04
- Abstract:
- Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of On Beauty, encourages an analysis of disciplinarity and institutionalization. I offer a reading of Smith’s representation of blackness in its institutional, social, and aesthetic dimensions.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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