Black British Women Writers : Challenging And Changing The Narrative Through Their Writings

Abstract

This paper is modest attempt to explore the ways and means by which Zadie Smith, a black British woman writer, is challenging and changing the narrative through her writings. A black woman writer is always expected to write about her exploitation in the society for being ‗black‘ or about her sexuality. But there is lot more to her experience and multitude of dimensions which are part of black woman consciousness. In this paper I will be dealing with of the works of Zadie Smith i.e. White Teeth and The Autograph Man. In both the novels Smith deals with multicultural identities in dominant white culture. Smith with her style of writing and her way of representation of black subject gave acceptance to black people in British society and readers wants to know more about their life, experiences, traumas of black people. Smith has transitioned them from being ‗invisible‘ to being ‗visible‘. She arose the sympathy of readers for black people.