@article {453,
	title = { The Challenges of Multicultural London in Zadie Smith{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblright}The Embassy of Cambodia"},
	journal = {Interactions, Ege Journal of British and American Studies},
	volume = {27},
	year = {2018},
	month = {03/2018},
	pages = {101-112},
	type = {Research},
	chapter = {101},
	abstract = {In most of her works, Zadie Smith presents the challenges of a multicultural society. In {\textquotedblleft}The Embassy of Cambodia,{\textquotedblright} she portrays some of the problems of multicultural contemporary London. These problems are mainly shown through a female immigrant{\textquoteright}s unequal, or second-class, citizenship in a multicultural land, her otherness or split identity, her indeterminate social status, as well as the natives{\textquoteright} ambivalent perspective toward her, microaggressions against her, and inability to recognize her as an equal member of society. As revealed by both the omniscient narrator and the collective first-person plural narrator, the immigrant Other and the natives are disconnected in a multicultural space. The central immigrant character, as my paper demonstrates, is pushed toward her own ethnicity and nationality as a result of the natives{\textquoteright} inherent race consciousness (Englishness) and the highly stratified social structure. Having been ignored, excluded, and repudiated, the immigrant is inevitably driven toward a radical form of religious and racial nationalism.

},
	keywords = {Ambivalence, Equal Citizenship, Microaggressions, Multicultural London Society, Recognition, The Embassy of Cambodia, Zadie Smith},
	url = {https://www.academia.edu/36401397/_The_Challenges_of_Multicultural_London_in_Zadie_Smith_s_The_Embassy_of_Cambodia_},
	author = {Nayebpour, Karam}
}
