zadie smith on roots & shoots
In ‘Speaking in Tongues’ an essay included in Changing My Mind, you wrote about the way that your working-class voice has gradually been supplanted by that of your life at Cambridge and as part of the literary milieu. Did the writing of NW allow you to rediscover some part of you that had been suppressed?
In that essay I was trying to describe some of the alienating side effects a ‘good’ education can bring to a working class child. But going to Cambridge didn’t make my very large family disappear, or all my friends, or the twenty years of my past. It’s all still here and I’m still a part of it, even if I get the piss taken out of me sometimes for my round vowels …
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