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- Title
BEYOND "HELPLESS HETEROGENEITY": DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH WOMEN'S FICTIONS OF MIGRATION.
- Authors
TANCKE, ULRIKE
- Abstract
An essay is presented on development of hybrid identity of British women based from their immigrant background. It mentions Caryl Phillips use Zadie Smith's novel "White Teeth" to investigate liberation and fragmentation of identities. It states that hybridity arise due to the desire of a person to define herself apart from others that create conflicts in the fundamental sense. The author adds the mental capacity of a person to forget as an approach to adapt to differences.
- Subjects
CULTURAL identity; WOMEN immigrants; ETHNIC identity of British people; WHITE Teeth: A Novel (Book : Smith); IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); CROSS-cultural differences; SMITH, Zadie, 1975-; EMIGRATION &; immigration &; psychology
- Publication
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 2013, Vol 68, p235
- ISSN
0927-5754
- Publication type
Essay