‘Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure’: Class Mobility and Public Transport in Zadie Smith’s NW
In Zadie Smith’s most recent novel, NW (2012), characters are always on the move, taking buses, or missing buses, or talking to strangers on buses, getting off a stop too early to escape them. The novel’s emphasis on physical mobility is matched by Smith’s interest in figurative, social mobility. Ev...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2679 |