• Samikshya Das
• Dr Sabita Tripathy

Zadie Smith, the renowned novelist of her debut novel White Teeth, has won many accolades owing to the postmodern approach to multicultural London and its multihued inhabitants. Smith herself being of mixed race, being born to a Jamaican mother and an English father, brings the angst she herself has dealt with in an entirely new and unique way. What’s commendable about the novelist is how she introduces humour as a postcolonial tool to subjugate and lessen the absurdity and racially charged atmosphere of London, where coloured races and mixed breeds coming up had led to less whitewashing and less impact of WASP Englishness. This paper identifies humour as a vehement tool of resistance and confrontation to the prying nature of racism/racialism that engulfed the modern and multicultural London cosmopolis.

diaspora, humour, postcolonialism, resistance, multiculturalism

"HUMOUR AS A MODE OF CONFRONTING RACIALISM IN ZADIE SMITH’S WHITE TEETH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.f674-f677, April-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204586.pdf

"HUMOUR AS A MODE OF CONFRONTING RACIALISM IN ZADIE SMITH’S WHITE TEETH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no. ppf674-f677, April-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204586.pdf