Multicultural Identities in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

Abstract

Post-Colonialism is an academic discipline that analyzes, explains and responds to the cultural legency of colonialism and imperialism. It speaks the human conseqences of external control and economic exploitation of native people and their lands.

This paper focus on the vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnical diverse families. It offers a very tragic outlook on the struggles that people from different background face in Britain in their everyday life. The novel White Teeth by Zadie Smih portrays London as a mixture of different cultures, ethnic group, and religious beliefs. In thisnovel London described asamulticutural city in the twenteenth century which isthe outcome of British colonialism.To an extend any societycan be defined as a muticultural place as long as it is constructed by two or more different cuturals, religions or languages. Smih combines two families-the Iqbals and the Joneses who have different national identities and also different cultural and religious values. Though the characters live ib London and have been assimilated still some of them try to hold themselves to theirrituals religious beliefs and cultural values in order to protect their roots and identity from external influences.