Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith

ISBN-13: 9781433165641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 108 str.

Walters, Tracey L.

Opis

Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of Zadie Smith's illustrious career as a dynamic, experimental novelist of contemporary Black British writing.

Spis treści

Introduction - Daniel South: Modelling Citizens: From a Digital to a Literary Public Sphere in NW and Swing Time - James Arnett: Zadie Smith's George Eliot's Spinoza and Everybody: The Ethics of Austere Realism - Matthias Stephan: Transmodern Identity Construction in Later Zadie Smith - Dr. Alberto Fernández Carbajal: "[U] nder the Sign of Love": Blackface Minstrelsy's Trauma, Racial Exploitation, and Kinaesthetic Hauntologies in Zadie Smith's Swing Time - Tracey L. Walters: The Quest for Knowledge: The Intellectual Woman in Zadie Smith's Novels.

O autorze

Tracey L. Walters is Professor of Literature in the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of English, and Women's and Gender Studies. Dr. Walters has published numerous articles on Black women's literature and several books: African American Women and the Classicists Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison (2007), Zadie Smith: Critical Essays (2008), Zadie Smith (2012), and Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Media (2021).