Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie
Smith's novels and short stories interrogate race postcolonialism and identity. Essays
explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race either by deconstructing notions of
race or interrogating the complexity of biracial identity and how Smith takes on contemporary
debates concerning notions of Britishness Englishness and Black Britishness. Some essays also
consider the shifting identities adopted by those who identify with both British and West
Indian South Asian or East Asian ancestry. Other essays explore Smith's contemporary
postcolonial approach to Britain's colonial legacy and the difference between how immigrants
and first-generation British-born children deal with cultural alienation and displacement. This
thought-provoking collection is a much-needed critical tool for students and researchers in
both contemporary British literature and Diasporic literature and culture.
