![]() ![]() The aim of this paper is to analyze the construction of identity through the lens of the theories of postmodern specifically, those of Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard and Fredric Jameson and these theories will then be applied to the novel practically. ![]() Some other characters intend to connect to fundamental groups so as to construct their identity and achieve their social status. ![]() Some of the characters see themselves as strangers in a strange world they even spent most of their life in London. ![]() Smith portrays the second-generation migrants and believes that they are totally different from Western societies in the way of raising up, living, thinking, etc. The characters are linked to their past, also they are unsatisfied with their lives in contemporary society. Obviously, White Teeth explores the troubles related to the existence in a diverse culture with the space between the migrants of the first and second generations. The novel focuses on postmodern issues and in particular, the construction of the identity of the Bangladeshi (Samad Iqbal) and the Englishman (Archie Jones) who are two close friends, and their children's living in multicultural London. Zadie Smith, as a Black British novelist and immigrant, is dealing with postmodern subjects in her first novel White Teeth (2000). Postmodern writers demonstrate the problems of living in a postmodern world. ![]()
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