《白牙》中的杂合性：战后移民在英国的社会和文化困境及可能的解决途径.pdf

Chapter One Introduction Chapter One Introduction 1.1 A Brief Introduction to Zadie Smith and White Teeth Zadie Smith, a young Jamaican British novelist, was born in the northwestern London borough of Bent — a largely working-class area — in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She attended the local state schools, Malorees Junior School and Hampstead Comprehensive School, and King’s College of Cambridge University, where she studied English literature. The 24-year-old Smith is regarded as a thinker and an intellectually exquisite ray of light on the horizon of twenty-first-century British literature. Just as she says, her writing is a way of thinking, with powerful and deep reflection over her own life and identity as the daughter of a colored immigrant. Smith began writing in her adolescence, which she describes as pathologically angst-ridden”. （Hodari 37 ）In 2000, her first novel White Teeth was published, making her mark at the first shot. This novel contains a resonance of voices of the original white British and colored immigrants, and Smith regards her writing as the normal function of her mind to think over her own life. White Teeth focuses on the lives of two wartime friends — the Bangladeshi, Iqbal and the Englishman, Archie Jones, and their families in London. The book has won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category of best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. Time Magazine even includes the novel in its Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. In White Teeth, Smith presents readers with bare-back