Choisissez un des trois textes-clés du chapitre (Zadie Smith, Jhumpa…

Exemple, sur White Teeth de Zadie Smith :<br> Zadie Smith's debut novel White Teeth (2000) offers a rich portrait of multicultural London through the intertwined lives of two families: the Joneses (English-Jamaican) and the Iqbals (Bangladeshi). Set mostly in the working-class neighbourhood of Willesden, the novel spans three generations and explores how identity is negotiated across race, religion and language. Smith uses humour and multiple narrative voices to render the mundane complexity of coexistence — friendship, misunderstanding, ambition, fundamentalism. What is striking is that the novel refuses easy narratives of either successful integration or catastrophic conflict. Instead, it depicts a messy, ordinary multiculturalism, where identity is fluid and inherited traumas cohabit with everyday life. Arguably, White Teeth captures the paradox of London: a city where communities live side by side, sometimes together, sometimes in parallel. In this sense, Smith's novel offers a powerful literary answer to the BO's question about urban coexistence in the English-speaking world.