DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i03.006

Pages: 182-184

Literature in postmodern era has a close connection with the concept of space. Physical place in which the story or the event evolves in literature is regarded as concept of space. The writer of literary works tries to give new interpretation by combining a place of a real world with imaginary space. Postcolonial narratives are a fertile ground for spatial analysis. In the context of colonial settlement, migration and globalization, transnational space provides a multidimensional approach to examine how space is depicted in literature. Space can be divided into constructed binaries such as own and other. The other space is the space of colonization. In transnationalism, the bipolar becomes multipolar because of one’s connections with more than two countries. Transnational space is not a natural space. It has to be negotiated between contradictions of nationalities. Face to face contact with contradiction of the postcolonial world by the uprooted populations of Naipaul’s ancestors from India and their contestation of the new spatial order, forms the basis for this study. It tries to examine writer’s reflection in his narratives based on his transnational connections with different countries.