Challenging Shakespeare: Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood

2004 ◽  
pp. 207-229 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Caryl Phillips ◽  
White Teeth

scholarly journals Barriers, borders and crossing in two postmodern novels: Caryl's Phillips's The Nature of Blood and Zadie Smith's White Teeth

2008 ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Cecilia Acquarone
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Caryl Phillips ◽  
Zadie Smith ◽  
White Teeth

The present article is a study of the novels the Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips and White Teeth by Zadie Smith as paradigmatic examples of postmodern writing as well as of two different responses that the movement has elicited in our times. While The Nature of Blood deals tragically with the postmodern condition, White Teeth laughs at the contradictions and celebrates the achievements of postmodernism.

Worlds Within: An Interview With Caryl Phillips

Callaloo ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 578
Author(s):  
C. Rosalind Bell
Keyword(s):  
Caryl Phillips

White Teeth

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Peter Nazareth ◽  
Okot p'Bitek ◽  
Okot p'Bitek ◽  
Lubwa p'Chong
Keyword(s):  
White Teeth

scholarly journals The Irony of a Handshake of Friendship with the West: A Reflection on Oyono’s HouseBoy and The Oldman and the Medal

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Dr Kalu, Kalu Obasi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The West ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
Degree Of Acceptance ◽  
Symbolic Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
White Teeth

The African proverb that ‘a set of white teeth does not indicate a pure heart’ aptly illustrates the relationship that exists between the Africa and the West. Colonization which is the image of friendship with the White man turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing. The Africans in their brotherhood temperament happily offers a handshake with the White man with the hope fostering a good relationship only to discover that the kind gesture is tampered with bad omen by his guest. The advancement of the White man was a happy thing to the Africans who assumed it to usher in good relationship between the West and the Africans. But it rather turned out to be a curse. Though belaboured in literary criticism, this paper attempts to look at the irony of the handshake as a symbolic image, exposing the White man’s wicked impressions as against the good intentions of the Africans. To do this Oyono’s Houseboy and The Old Man and the Medal are used for this study. The paper examines the degree of acceptance by the Africans and the humane acceptance of the White man and his eventual exploitative attitude toward the same people who happily accepted them. The White man’s use of violence to oppress, subjugate and assault his hosts. The paper explores the ridiculing nature of colonialism and providing the insight to view the psychology of both the White man and his African host. Allusion is also made of other texts that express the same themes. 

scholarly journals La historia espacial en la novela inglesa contemporánea: de pilgrims a nómades

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Socorro Suárez Lafuente
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
A Site ◽  
White Teeth ◽  
Intertextual Dialogue

ResumenLa novela inglesa de los últimos años deriva desde la auto/biografía y la metafi cción historiográfi ca hacia teorías de historia espacial, o personajes que responden a las características de pilgrims o nómades. Esta diversifi cación de voces y lugares entra de lleno en los postulados de la intertextualidad y la transnacionalidad cultural, y verifi ca la “disemiNación”. Obras como To the Hermitage o White Teeth establecen los puentes críticos y temáticos que permiten a la literatura inglesa seguir siendo un espacio sincré- tico de fusión y expansión plurinacional: los personajes devienen en un lugar múltiple de infl uencias y vivencias, y se mueven en el espacio y el tiempo para crear la dialogía intertextual que marca la continuidad de la experiencia literaria inglesa.Palabras clave: Metafi cción historiográfi ca, intertextualidad, disemiNación, espacio.AbstractIn the last few years, the English novel moved from auto/biography and historiographic metafi ction towards theories dealing with a spatial history and characters that respond to the defi nition of either pilgrims or nómades. This diversifi cation of voice and place narrates intertextuality and transnational discourses, and validates the possibilities of “dissemiNation”. Novels such as Malcolm Bradbury’s To the Hermitage or Zadie Smith’s White Teeth establish the conditions that make contemporary English Literature a place for synchretic fusion and plurinational expansion: characters become a site for multiple infl uences and experiences, and they move through time and space creating the intertextual dialogue that confers continuity to the literary development in English.Key words: Historiographic metafi ction, intertextuality, dissemiNation, space.

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