Identity and Place in Postcolonial Literature: A case study of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981)
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Date
2020-10
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university of El-Oued
Abstract
The current study aims at investigating the theme of identity and place in postcolonial
literature in Salman Rushdie‟s Midnight’s Children. It is a qualitative research that relies
on the descriptive-analytical method. The postcolonial perspective of identity and place are
important to be studied. In the course of investigating and analysing identity and place, the
identity theory and postcolonial place characteristics are purposefully used. The research
comes up with several results. The identity is affected by the place by in which it is raised .
As the place develops and changes in terms of cultural, social, and political circumstances,
the identity does as well which proves the postcolonial views of constructions identities
and its no-stable nature. Whether the place as realistic or imaginary still it defines the
realistic identity which is described now or the imaginary identity that is wished to be.
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Postcolonial literature, Postcolonial theory, Identity, place