Introduction

Chapter One Stylistic Analysis in Fiction

1.1 Style and Stylistics

1.2 Scope of Stylistic Analysis

1.3 Criteria of Stylistic Feature Selection for Analysis

1.4 Stylistics and Literary Appreciation

Chapter Two Zadie Smith and Her Novels

2.1 Zadie Smith and Her Novels

2.2 Critical Responses of the Novels

2.3 Background of the Novels

2.4 Major Themes of the Novels

2.5 Cultural Hybridity in Zadie Smith's Novels

Chapter Three Manifestation of Hybridity in Language Use

3.1 Literary Language and Realistic Language

3.2 Hybridity of Linguistic Features in Smith's novels

Chapter Four Hybridity of Narration in Smith's Novels

4.1 Analysis of Narrative Styles

4.2 Hybridity of Narrative Style in Smith's Novels

4.3 Narrator in the Novels

4.4 Tone of Narration

4.5 Hybridity in Narration

Chapter Five Thematic Analysis in the Context of Postcolonialism

5.1 Stylistics in Context

5.2 Thematic Analysis of Smith's Novels in Postcolonial Society

5.3 Symbolic Significance in the Novels

5.4 Hybridity in Postcolonial World

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Excerpt from The Autograph Man(pp.46-47)

Appendix 2 Excerpt from On Beauty(pp.97-98)

Appendix 3 Excerpt from White Teeth(pp.326-327)

Appendix 4 Excerpt from White Teeth(pp.265-267)

Appendix 5 Excerpt from White Teeth(pp.71-73)

Bibliography

Acknowledgements