Reading Zadie Smith : The First Decade and Beyond

Abstract

Introduction, Philip Tew Part I: Individual Novels Section One: White Teeth (2000) 1. The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Zadie Smith's White Teeth and the Posthuman, Brad Buchanan 2. White Teeth Reconsidered: Narrative Deception and Uncomfortable Truths, Ulrike Tancke 3. Body Larceny: Somatic Seizure and Control in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Joanna O'Leary Section Two: The Autograph Man (2002) 4. I could have been somebody: Identity and Mediation in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man, Tracey K. Parker 5. Celebrity, Suburban Identity & Transatlantic Philographic Traces of Meaning in The Autograph Man, Philip Tew Section Three: On Beauty (2005) 6. On Beauty and Being Right, Lynn Wells 7. History in Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Susan Alice Fischer Part II: Other Works, Broader Perspectives Section Four: Beyond the Novels and the Public Domain 8. An Alternative Zadie Smith: Reading the Short Stories, Lucienne Loh 9. Hysterical Realism: Reflections on the Smith / Wood Debate, Joe Brooker 10. Negotiating Zadie Smith's Non-Fiction, Karen Zouaoui Section Five: Fakery and Belief 11. 'A Breed of Lyrical Realism': Form and Fakery in the Novels of Zadie Smith, Christopher Holmes 12. On Religion: Postsecular Quests, Scriptural Borrowings and Irreducible Beauty in the Fiction of Zadie Smith, Magdalena Maczynska Conclusion Further Reading Index.