The mixture of culture and races allows Smith to mix. Finally, the rejection of determinism, the embrace of hybridity and the promotion of chance as influence on the course of our lives, in the novel explored through the separation and personal growth of two twin boys and their father’s expectations of them, all evince an individually-minded, inclusive and multicultural world-view. White Teeth is about various ethnic and cultural identities, and about the consequences of colonialism. After initial analysis of critical response to the novel, and seeking a framework to analyse Smith’s arguments with, it becomes clear that through the use of irony, here defined as the author reversing expectations and evaluations of both characters and readers, she distances herself from cultural determinism, and questions the influence that history, race and religion have on identity, especially in the postcolonial sense. White Teeth tracks a number of real historical events related to the history of British colonization, including the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which Samad claims. Published just prior to the 2001 attacks on the New York World Trade Center, the novel portrays a diverse, post-colonial and multi-religious London community that projects an inclusive, multicultural view of the world that seems at odds with current trends in religious and cultural politics and popular opinion. The novel centres on Britain's relationship with immigrants from the British Commonwealth.

It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friendsthe Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jonesand their families in London. The aim of this paper is to examine Zadie Smith’s 2000 novel White Teeth in light of the current state of affairs regarding race, multiculturalism and religion in Europe and the rest of the West. White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith.

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