should follow his footsteps. In the article, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy,” by Andrea Smith examines how we are all oppressed in different forms, focusing on the framework of “women of color” or “people of color” in attempts to find alternatives to challenge the hetero-patriarchal and white superiority status quo in the United States. The Hispanic values billboards demonstrate Andrea Smith third pillar of Orientalism, “The logic of Orientalism marks certain peoples or nations…

Zadie Smith's White Teeth Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth, is chock full of potential deconstruction ideas; however, an exciting scene to deconstruct is in “The Final Space” chapter when the Iqbals and the Jones are on the public bus heading towards the FutureMouse exhibit. The most obvious binary opposite is that of parent or adult and child. Adults are without doubt the privileged binary. They signify knowledge, wisdom, teaching, and training of young ones along with patience and selflessness…

Indian Mutiny. (pg 84) 2. First, Clara knocked her front teeth out while riding on a scooter with Ryan. Next, Clara’s faith was dwindling because the New Year did not bring about the apocalypse as she expected. Clara surprised herself by falling into a melancholy because of these two things. Clara was lacking a savior when she met Archie. When she saw Archie for the first time, she did not see the rather short, chubby, middle-aged white man in a badly tailored suit. Clara saw Archie through the…

Themes of Identity and Heritage in White Teeth A suicidal man with no place in the world, an African American woman who wants to get away from her own mother, and a Bengali man who is conflicted with himself and his culture; these characters make the basis for almost all events in Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth. The story of White Teeth takes place in a diverse London between the periods of 1974 and 1992, beginning with Archie Jones attempt at suicide. Archie and his long time friend Samad and…

Zadie Smith's multicultural, post colonial novel has been widely discussed in the literary world. At the age of 25, Zadie Smith captures the immensely believable lives of an aging Bangladeshi Muslim man, a too-concerned middle-class white woman poking her nose in all the wrong business, and an adolescent half-Jamaican girl with self-esteem issues. Over the span of about 30 years, the three families in the book undergo a wide web of separate but somehow connected circumstances, and Smith…

1. Samad’s great-grandfather, Mangal Pande was the first of the sepoys in the Bengal army to fire a shot at a British soldier setting off a revolt against the British. However, the circumstances of the events that unfolded are greatly debated as to whether he was drunk when he shot the soldier and so on (209). However, for Samad, Pande represents an unsung hero of eastern culture, preserving the culture of Bengal from the British (215). Samad also views Pande as a name that he must live up to; Pande…

This paper is mostly going to focus on the two main couples that we follow throughout the book, White Teeth. The first couple, is Archie and Clara, the second couple is Samad and Alsana. Throughout the book we get flashbacks at the lives of the characters. There are four concepts I cover in this paper, how communication, race, ethnicity, and differences between couples effects their marriages. One of the first concepts I found from the textbook that was a large part of the plot line was the interracial…

Love in A.S. Byatt's Possession, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and the Full Monty by Peter Cuttaneo As British literature and film seek to sort out the identity crisis that England finds herself in as a post-imperial nation, a variety of views have emerged concerning solutions for Britain’s confusion. One reoccurring theme to these views is love. A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, and The Full Monty, directed by Peter Cattaneo, all deal with a traditional, romantic view of true…

represented in Tar Baby and White Teeth? In what ways do the narratives challenge binary oppositions of centre/margin? Theories of race and ethnicity have never been a high priority in society, and this is reflected through many narratives across the world and throughout time. Majority of narratives focus mainly on centralising the “whites” or Anglo’s as the focal point of each story, causing a distinguished imbalance or hierarchy, between the “whites” or Anglo’s and the “non-whites” or non-Anglo’s, Lucas…

aspects that build up a person’s character and personality. These are the aspects that lead us to make decisions, to reason, and most importantly to make judgements. Zadie Smith’s writing involves various cultures and generations and these different perspectives resonate with human thoughts and feelings. In her short story, “Stuart”, Zadie Smith uses comparisons and various other literary techniques to portray the significance of creating judgements from only one’s perceptions; as well as, the importance…