Zadie Smith

The Editor: Tracey L. Walters is Associate Professor of Literature at Stony Brook University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Howard University. She has published a number of essays on Black British literature and culture and has also published essays on Zadie Smith. Her first book, Writing the Classics Black: The Poetic and Political Function of Classical Revision in African American Women’s Writing, was published in 2007.

• Contents: Tracey L. Walters: Introduction – Matthew Paproth: The Flipping Coin: The Modernist and Postmodernist Zadie Smith – Ulka Anjaria: On Beauty and Being Postcolonial: Aesthetics and Form in Zadie Smith – Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: The Impossible Self and the Poetics of the Urban Hyperreal in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man – Maeve Tynan: «Only Connect»: Intertextuality and Identity in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty – Raphael Dalleo: Colonization in Reverse: White Teeth as Caribbean Novel – Susan Alice Fischer: «Gimme Shelter»: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty – Tracey L. Walters: Still Mammies and Hos: Stereotypical Images of Black Women in Zadie Smith’s Novels – Sharon Raynor: From the Dispossessed to the Decolonized: From Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners to Zadie Smith’s «Hanwell in Hell» – Lexi Stuckey: Red and Yellow, Black and White: Color-Blindness as Disillusionment in Zadie Smith’s «Hanwell in Hell» – Kris Knauer: The Root Canals of Zadie Smith: London’s Intergenerational Adaptation – Z. Esra Mirze: Fundamental Differences in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth – Katarzyna Jakubiak: Simulated Optimism: The International Marketing of White Teeth.