Anxiety, socialisation, self-idealisation and search for glory in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty

• Main Author: Shokri, Shima
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Multiculturalism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/71053/1/FBMK%202015%20106%20IR.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/71053/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Literary scholars of Zadie Smith’s two novels, White Teeth (2000) and On Beauty (2005), have examined Millat and Levi, the two youngest male characters in the novels, based on their situations in post-colonial and multi-cultural societies by viewing them as representations of second generation immig...