abstract

The postcolonial literature offers a significant approach to studying the cultural and political implications of colonial domination in the post colonized societies. The description of space and place is one of the most important elements of postcolonial stories as it displays the multidimensional interaction between geography, power, and identity. This essay will discuss the politics of space and place as portrayed in the postcolonial or English works in relation to the way the authors portray the landscape, cities, borders and diasporic places as a subject to dispute or contention due to the colonial past. The colonial rule also altered not only political and economic organization but also reshaped the spatial relationships with introducing new territorial borders, urban planning and land property. This paper explores the theme of spatial domination, migration, displacement and recovery of indigenous landscapes through qualitative textual analysis of the chosen literary works. The results indicate that space within postcolonial texts serves not only as the symbolic space in which cultural identity, resistance, and the memory of the past are discussed but also as the backdrop space. The process of reclaiming marginalized geographies and disrupting colonial spatial hierarchies, postcolonial writers can change literary landscape into an effective resistance and cultural reconstruction place.