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What is Reality and What is Illusion? The Depiction of Africa in Zadie Smith’s "Swing Time"

Name: What is Reality and What is Illusion? The Depiction of Africa in Zadie Smith’s "Swing Time"
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Author: Marnie Hensler
ISBN: 9783346432612

Essay, 2019

5 Pages, Grade: 1.0

Marnie Hensler (Author)

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This essay explores the depiction of Africa in Zadie Smith's "Swing Time" in connection to Foucault’s concept of heterotopias to find out how (differently) Africa is depicted in the novel and which of the different depictions is the illusion and which the reality.

Foucault’s concept of heterotopia has almost become ‘trendy’ in recent years and has influenced architects, artists and literary critics alike. Defined as “mythic and real contestation of the space in which we live”, heterotopias can exist “outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality”. Yet what is reality, and what is the "heterotopia", the illusion?

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Title: What is Reality and What is Illusion? The Depiction of Africa in Zadie Smith’s "Swing Time"
College: University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar)
Grade: 1.0
Author: Marnie Hensler (Author)
Year: 2019
Pages: 5
Catalog Number: V1030972
ISBN (eBook): 9783346432612
Language: English
Keywords: what, reality, illusion, depiction, africa, zadie, smith’s, swing, time

Quote paper: Marnie Hensler (Author), 2019, What is Reality and What is Illusion? The Depiction of Africa in Zadie Smith’s "Swing Time", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1030972

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