Zadie Smith’s NW: the Novel at an ‘anxiety crossroads’?

This paper proposes to examine Zadie Smith’s NW (2012) in the light of her essay ‘Two Directions for the Novel’, in which she explores two roads for novel writing: ‘lyrical realism’ and ‘constructive deconstruction’. In NW, Smith uses a range of narrative techniques that are indebted to realist, mod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vanessa Guignery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2013-10-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Subjects:
NW
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/996