6/19/2023 0 Comments Only connect forster![]() Forster's famous dictum "only connect" with Paul Gilroy's concept of "conviviality." NW's representation of two friends who are constituted by boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity but who also contest those limits points to the difficulties faced by many contemporary European minorities. Only after Leah and Natalie, the novel's central characters, rekindle their friendship, can they set in motion the novel's closing act of justice.ĪB - This article interprets Zadie Smith's novel NW (2012) as an attempt to link E. NW suggests that Gilroy's convivial society is only possible with Forsterian, interpersonal connections. In NW, the idea of race collaborates with that of ethnicity and class to form a strongly racialized logic through which the immigrant's upward mobility is subtly yet decisively affected. ![]() N2 - This article interprets Zadie Smith's novel NW (2012) as an attempt to link E. ![]() ![]() T2 - Race and (Re)connection in Zadie Smith’s NW ![]()
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