Identity and Place in Postcolonial Literature: A case study of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981)

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.