Zadie Smith's White Teeth: A Reader's Guide

claire squires

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘High Fidelity'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

Genres nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 1,2002

Series

Continuum Contemporaries

This edition

Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Published: June 26, 2002 by Continuum
ISBN: 9780826453266
ASIN: 0826453260
Language: English

About the author

claire squires

Professor Claire Squires is Director of the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communications at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and director of the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. Her publications include Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (2007) and as co-editor, the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond (2019). With Beth Driscoll, she is co-founder of the conceptual school Ullapoolism, with their jointly authored publications, including Publishing Bestsellers: Buzz and the Frankfurt Book Fair (2020) and articles on book festivals, sexual harassment in publishing, and the smell of books.

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Hikalgo

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April 17,2025

I thought there would be some great revelations...good scholarship and research.

I appreciated the connections between Smith's first novel and the classics that could have contributed to her work. She is so well-read.

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