Impediments of Hyphenated Identity in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man
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https://doi.org/10.61841/h8sevv54Keywords:
Chinese, Jewish, British identities, Hyphenated identities, MulticulturalismAbstract
Zadie Smith is a reputed young British writer famous for her novels, essays and short stories. The Autograph Man (2002) the second novel by Zadie Smith has established a fantastic Universal outstriks in North West London,which is ridiculously known as Mountjoy. It is a version of loss ,delusion, mixed- race and won that 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for fiction. The Autograph Man is a sentimental novel than any other works of Zadie Smith. The character Alex, a Chinese -Jewish -British hero resembles a Jewish and a Chinese in his eyes and relatively British belonging and not associated to any humanity or culture as a whole. This novel confronts barriers of identity escalating between Jewish, British and Chinese identities . It is investigated as the course to an exalted sense of self-knowledge and valued in an affirmative tone. Alex will consistently have his Chinese eyes, but not a kitty Alexander Obsession. He used to follow Jewish rituals when it is necessary but not assuming in them. On the basis of Smith's humorous consequence the text portrays a specific sentiment towards the future and not giving a solution for approaching cultural riots
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Smith, Zadie. The Autograph Man, London: Penguin, 2003.
Lane, Richard, Rod Mengham and Phillp Tew. Eds. Contemporary British Fiction, Cambridge: polity, 2003
Tew, Philip eds., Reading Zadie Smith, The First Decade And Beyond, 2013
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