![]() ![]() She drops by a film lecture featuring a clip from the 1936 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Swing Time, pointing to her deep fascination with dance, in the context of black history as well as her own life. ![]() The novel begins in October 2008, when the anonymous narrator-who highly resembles the author in terms of background-is laying low in London after the recent fallout from some kind of scandal. ![]() Swing Time (2016) is Smith's fifth novel and features extensive considerations of the nuances of race, history, and society, often through the lens of dance. Her ensuing publications have solidified her standing among the English-speaking world's top handful of novelists in terms of critical and popular anticipation and appreciation of her works. Her ability to adopt a variety of perspectives in her first novel, White Teeth-from white to brown to black and from Christian to Muslim, among others-and write with an incisive understanding of modern Western society led to the debut's being sensationally received. Anative of London, Smith was born to a Jamaican mother and English father and raised in the city's ethnically diverse Kilburn area. Zadie Smith is one of the most admired and accomplished British writers of the early twenty-first century. ![]()
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