Literary work
- romanzo
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Year
City
Londra
Language
Inglese
ISBN code
0-241-13997-X
Pages number
480
Link
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Smith grafts comic tones into an epic framework to tell the cultural conflict suffered by second generation London migrants. The Jones and Iqbal families fortuitously come into contact by staging a series of cultural circumstances that give rise now to frictions now to hybridizations, now to discrepancies now to compromises. The dental metaphor that serves as the novel's conceptual substrate thematizes the recognition of identity and the maintenance of traditions in a rapidly evolving cultural world, flowing several times into digressive inserts derived from genetic biology and into speculative implications of a posthuman matrix.
