Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Salman Rushdieās Fiction
Essay title: Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Salman Rushdieās Fiction
Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Salman Rushdies Fiction
Daniela Rogobete
Today everything that derives from history and from historical time must undergo a test. Neither āculturesā nor the āconsciousnessā of peoples, groups, or even individuals can escape the loss of identity that is now added to all other besetting terrorsā¦ nothing and no one can avoid trial by space. (Lefebvre in Burgin, 1996: 23)
Space and its recontextualisation, its metaphoric representations and political remappings have always preoccupied the theorists of postcolonialism who tried to find new ways of reading its physical and metaphorical coordinates. A relativisation of both space and time was long ago operated so that territories were reshaped, boundaries retraced in an attempt to reconfigure reality according to new dimensions. Relocation of centre and periphery, margins and interstitial spaces were redefined within what has been called the politics of location requiring a new vocabulary belonging to spatial language. It places identity, no longer envisaged in