Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: Dubious Existence of Cultural Authenticity
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چکیده
This paper argues the cultural authenticity is a questionable conception. Zadie Smith’s debut novel, White Teeth features characters like Samad Miah Iqbal and Hortense Bowden who aredetermined toretain purity. Through this projection,presumably, Smith intends to satirize their efforts substantiates her claim that purity cannot maintained, especially, when immigrants come host country. Despite guarding of one’s culture, breaching integrity has visibly taken place in novel
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عنوان ژورنال: Literary Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2091-1637']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v34i01.39539