Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond

Introduction, Philip Tew Part I: Individual Novels Section One: White Teeth (2000) 1. The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Zadie Smith's White Teeth and the Posthuman, Brad Buchanan 2. White Teeth Reconsidered: Narrative Deception and Uncomfortable Truths, Ulrike Tancke 3. Body Larceny: Somatic Seizure and Control in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Joanna O'Leary Section Two: The Autograph Man (2002) 4. "I could have been somebody": Identity and Mediation in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man, Tracey K. Parker 5. Celebrity, Suburban Identity & Transatlantic Philographic Traces of Meaning in The Autograph Man, Philip Tew Section Three: On Beauty (2005) 6. On Beauty and Being Right, Lynn Wells 7. History in Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Susan Alice Fischer Part II: Other Works, Broader Perspectives Section Four: Beyond the Novels and the Public Domain 8. An Alternative Zadie Smith: Reading the Short Stories, Lucienne Loh 9. "Hysterical Realism": Reflections on the Smith / Wood Debate, Joe Brooker 10. Negotiating Zadie Smith's Non-Fiction, Karen Zouaoui Section Five: Fakery and Belief 11. 'A Breed of Lyrical Realism': Form and Fakery in the Novels of Zadie Smith, Christopher Holmes 12. On Religion: Postsecular Quests, Scriptural Borrowings and Irreducible Beauty in the Fiction of Zadie Smith, Magdalena Maczynska Conclusion Further Reading Index.

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

Philip Tew's Reading Zadie Smith: the First Decade and Beyond is a provocative and sophisticated collection of essays that span Zadie Smith's entire current canon from her four novels to her literary criticism to her short stories. It includes three essays with new approaches to White Teeth and also two stunning essays on Smith's difficult new novel NW. Christine W. Sizemore, Professor of English, Spelman College, Atlanta, USA