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Growing up in Multicultural Britain: Re-definitions of Identity, Tradition and Britishness in Two Contemporary Novels
Year: 2011
Type of publication: kapitola v odborné knize
Name of source: Beyond 2000: The Recent Novel in English
Publisher name: Wydawnictwo Państwowej Wyzszej Szkoly Zawodowej im. Angelusa Silesiusa w Walbrzychu
Place: Wałbrzych
Page from-to: 85-97
Titles:
Language Name Abstract Keywords
cze Dospívání v Multikulturní Británii: Redefinice Identity, Tradice a Britství ve dvou současných románech Kapilola se věnuje otázkám tzv. nových etnických identit, nového definování toho, co utváří britskou národní identitu a rovněž otázkám hybridity a jejich vztahu k literárnímu žánru vývojového románu či Bildungsromanu. Kapitola analyzuje dva současné romány vydané po roce 2000 - White Teeth od Zadie Smithové a (Un)arranged Marriage od autora Bali Rai. britská identita; britský román po roce 2000; Bildungsroman; Zadie Smith; White Teeth; Bali Rai; (Un)arranged Marriage
eng Growing up in Multicultural Britain: Re-definitions of Identity, Tradition and Britishness in Two Contemporary Novels The contribution explores the issues of new ethnicities, of the so-called hyphenated identities and hybridity to see how they relate to the genre of coming-of-age novels. Thus it explores one of the interesting thematic trends of post-2000 British literature, i.e. its marked increase in ethnic diversity both in terms of authors and their literary protagonists, as well as address the theoretical issue of how one of the traditional novel forms (the Bildungsroman) has been effectively transformed or its structure incorporated into the postmodern novel form. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2001) and Bali Rai’s (Un)arranged Marriage (2001) are analyzed Britishness; Identity; post-2000 British novel; Bildungsroman; Zadie Smith; White Teeth; Bali Rai; (Un)arranged Marriage

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