Multiculturalism In English Literature

Multiculturalism is inextricably linked with postcolonialism and free market policy augmented the proportion of new kind of racism in the world i.e., pure race cannot survive in hybrid terrain and assimilation is inexorably to be embraced. The book White Teeth was published in 2000 when the rise of ‘multi’ thing was mounting in vogue. The author also branded with hyphenated identity black-British, raised in a land of racial tension and the commencement of cultural studies in Birmingham sprawled reinterpretation and reclamation of historical past in a new consciousness that inescapably cut out place for authors like Rushdie, Naipaul, Andrea Levi, Monica Ali and Hanif Kuraishi. The other names that can be potential competitors are out of that

Smith as an author of new millennium created a utopian world for minorities where hybridity through performance culturally and socially accepted. That time the viability of such discourses was encouraged. . If we look out names of Booker Prize winner novelists of the last decade of the century we can easily locate how multiplicity was felicitated. Postcolonial and commonwealth literature were written and applauded as if third world writers exclusively write for first world critics as pointed out by Graham Huggan “Cultural differences was fetishized and then institutionalized in the ‘sponsored multiculturalism’ of the Booker Prize during 80s and 90s, amounting to ‘a levelling out of different histories, and aestheticized celebration of diversity that disguises the lack of socio-historical

His self-imposed proximity to his great-grandfather Mangal Pande antagonistically makes Archie his rival who saves Dr. Perret, a eugenist in Nazi camp, signified historical implications of colonial past. One is killed by colonizers regarding a religious fanatic and intoxicated by drugs while the other figure is arbiter of selection and weeding out the unwanted. Smith ridicules the memory and nostalgia and counter activity of Samad of sending his son Bangladesh only to clung to his tradition is nothing but a remembering that she counters with forgetting when Irie the mouthpiece of Smith and an unconscious persona of her shouts “No shit. No shit in attics. No skeletons in cupboards. No great grandfathers. As quoted in Astrid Erll’s Re-Writing as Re-Visioning, writes, Jan Rupp has convincingly argued that acts of forgetting are of paramount importance in Smith’s novel_ a rather unconventional literary strategy, especially in the context of post- colonial literature:

The novel challenges established routines of looking at the past…It does not straightforwardly seek to dismiss postcolonial mores of remembering, but it venture near this taboo zone to reassess them from the perspective of second-generation ‘hy-Brits’, for whom this code of remembrance seems to have become obsolete…In postcolonial