Cartography in Postcolonial Fiction

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Cartography in Postcolonial Fiction is written by Selin Şencan and published by Kriter Yayinevi. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 6255948196 (ISBN 10) and 9786255948199 (ISBN 13).

Space shapes identity in postcolonial fiction through contested geographies, migration, and spatial memory. Cartography in Postcolonial Fiction examines how literary narratives engage with territorial belonging, displacement, and resistance. Analyzing works by Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe, Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, C.L.R. James, Patricia Grace, Gabriel García Márquez, Anita Desai, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, this book explores how postcolonial authors from South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific reimagine space as both a site of control and liberation. Drawing on literary cartography and spatial theory, Selin Şencan investigates how colonial geographies persist in contemporary fiction, shaping narratives across urban centers, diasporic landscapes, and Indigenous homelands. By mapping these literary terrains, this study reveals how fiction challenges, reclaims, and reconfigures space in a world shaped by colonial legacies.