IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

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THE UNSCRUPULOUSNESS OF POSTMODERN SENSITIVITY IN ON BEAUTY OF ZADIE SMITH

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L. Sujitha, Dr. S. Sophia Christina

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Postmodernism has influenced every writer in the contemporary century and Zadie Smith is not an exception in this whirlpool. She is a British author, who has interracial parents. With her first-hand experience of living as a child of mixed parents, she makes use of this opportunity to imprint her identity in literature. She never fails to highlight the plight of being the child of a couple who face interracial marital status. She is acknowledged for her and best award-winning novel, White Teeth published in 2000. On Beauty, which was published in 2003, is her third novel and she reflects her autobiographical experiences in her fictional characters. As the title of the novel suggests, the idea of beauty is approached from various points of view. This research article attempts to take a closer look at the sensitivity of morality, prevalence of racial and gender-based discrimination and the theme of alienation in the young characters that are rendered through an iconoclastic narrative style of Zadie Smith

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