Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma

This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth , On Beauty , NW , The Embassy of Cambodia , and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma, this volume explores Smith’s challenge of Western theories of trauma and coping, and how her narratives expose the insidiousness of (post)colonial suffering and unbelonging. This book then explore