For 10 points, name this contemporary British author of On Beauty and White Teeth.
An essay by this author discusses Nabokov's bipartite conception of inspiration, vortstorg and vdokhnovenie as part of an analysis of Barthes. In one novel by this author, a character who puts on a faux-Brooklyn accent joins a gang of Haitian streetpeddlers. A poetry class ventures to a spoken word venue called The Bus Stop in a novel by her that begins with a motto from Howards End. In another of her works, one of two men who frequent the O'Connell's (*) pub requests to have a portrait of his rebellious ancestor hung on the wall, much to the chagrin of two Jamaican pub regulars. The black conservative Monty Kipps is the archnemesis of Rembrandt expert Howard Belsey in one work by her, while in another, a boy joins an extremist Muslim group called KEVIN that plans to interrupt the presentation of FutureMouse by Marcus Chalfen. For 10 points, name this contemporary British author of On Beauty and White Teeth.
An essay by this author discusses Nabokov's bipartite conception of inspiration, vortstorg and vdokhnovenie as part of an analysis of Barthes.
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