![]() ![]() In Zadie Smith’s work ‘ White Teeth’, she constructs each character by engaging them to the context of history in two dimensional manners which are a) characters’ history which informs the reader about their personal background and b) characters’ history based on their ethnic background which enlightens the current issues arisen from characters’ dilemma on local culture and their origins. ![]() Smith draws a different image of London where the novel takes place as she portrays diverse characters that have varied races and historical roots and that are mostly migrants from colonized nations before the Second World War, and also, addresses to the problems of characters that are arisen as a result of the dominant local culture which are the detriment of characters’ identity, the feeling of otherness and sense of belonging to an exact place. ![]() Zadie Smith, in her novel ‘White Teeth’ examines the struggle with the issues of identity, otherness and cultural legacy of three different families, Jonases, Iqbals and Chalfens, with mixed ethnicities and different cultural backgrounds. ![]()
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