‘A Passport to Cross the Room’: Cosmopolitan Empathy and Transnational Engagement in Zadie Smith’s NW (2012)
This article seeks to demonstrate that Zadie Smith’s fourth novel, 'NW' (2012), deviates away from celebratory multiculturalism in Britain, interrogating the struggle between critical cosmopolitanism and melancholia in a twenty-first century urban environment. It will be argued that Smith’...
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-01-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
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| Online Access: | http://c21.openlibhums.org/articles/15 |