• k. Nandhini

The paper aims to investigate Zadie smith’s white teeth. white teeth is the first novel of the contemporary female writer Zadie smith, giving her a quintessential overnight position among the greats of British literature. The paper focus on the overall context of contemporary Anglo-American post colonial literature, personal and social identities can be creatively cross examined by using the material and cultural symbolism of tooth. This paper proposes that Zadie smith successfully employs the metaphor of teeth to convey about a characters heritage and roots. it examines the entangled effects the cultural history can have on ones identity. the core of this paper is the analysis of Zadie smiths novel white teeth, its language and the overall multicultural context. The paper includes the thematic aspects of the novel white teeth mixed marriages, skin colour, nurture of children from mixed families and different ethnic groups and its focuses on the language and situational humour within the novel white teeth.

Zadie Smith, White Teeth, post-colonial, postmodernism, hybridity, ethnicity

"Zadie Smith, White Teeth, post-colonial, postmodernism, hybridity, ethnicity ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.47-49, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06015.pdf

"Zadie Smith, White Teeth, post-colonial, postmodernism, hybridity, ethnicity ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp47-49, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06015.pdf