Delineation Of Diaspora In Zadie Smith’s Novel White Teeth

Abstract

Born to a Jamaican mother and an English father, Zadie Smith, a multiculturalist by birth, wrote her debut novel about an uncomplicated, uninvolved working-class Londoner who lived a good life throughout the twentieth century. Her novel White Teeth, which contains autobiographical elements, is universal appreciation. The book has the diasporic elements features sprinkled throughout the story, mingling in the characters without any trace. Second-generation immigrants encounter diasporic issues such as identity crisis, alienation, and in-between-ness in the host country when they migrate to some other urban centre seeking their initiative to get higher education or some productive jobs. Practically they are sandwiched with the psychological anxieties regarding the diaspora and cultural identity.