A Study On The Spatial Writing Of Salman Rushdie’s Novels And Postcolonial Criticism In His Works

Salman Rushdie is a famous contemporary British writer.He has won such international awards as the Man Booker Prize,the Carver Literature Prize and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize,and has won wide attention from the world literary circle.As an immigrant writer,Rushdie has always adhered to the creation concept of cosmopolitanism.His novels combine the content of his works with the history of many countries.He not only deeply considers the history,nationality,culture and religion of India,but also pays great attention to the phenomenon of diaspora and cultural hybridity on a global scale.In addition,Rushdie also describes many metaphorical architectural and geographic Spaces in his novels,which contain power relations,social environment and cultural significance.These Spaces not only reveal the darkness of imperial colonial activities,but also show the conflicts and blends faced by characters in multicultural Spaces.This paper focuses on the space writing in Rushdie’s representative novels,and makes an in-depth analysis of his works by referring to the power space theory of Lefebvre and Foucault,the multicultural space theory of Homi Baba and the postcolonial theory of Said.The author discusses the construction and deconstruction of the image of empire from the perspective of geographical space,analyzes the writer’s criticism of colonial relations from the perspective of power space,and discusses the identity in the post-colonial era from the perspective of multicultural space,so as to dig the metaphorical meaning of space and explore the author’s unique perspective of post-colonial criticism.This paper consists of three parts: introduction,text and conclusion,and the text has five chapters.The first chapter firstly introduces Lefebvre and Foucault’s theories on space and power,space and discourse,and introduces Homi Baba’s theories on multicultural space,and makes a comprehensive analysis in combination with Said’s postcolonial space theory.Then,based on Rushdie’s own life experience,creative ideas and the thematic implications of his works,the author analyzes the post-colonial research value of his novels.The following is a study of Rushdie’s post-colonial critical consciousness from the perspective of space writing at three levels in his novels.The second chapter mainly discusses the construction and deconstruction of the empire image from the perspective of geographic space.Geographical space took on special political meaning as empires expanded by force and occupied land on a large scale abroad.The colonists occupied the land and built modern facilities to declare sovereignty,highlight the superiority of civilization,consolidate rule and maintain power,thus constructing a rich and civilized image of the empire.Then Rushdie completed the deconstruction of the image of the empire by describing the loneliness of space,the living state and psychological changes of characters,showing the author’s deconstruction of the Empire building and hegemonism.The third chapter mainly analyzes Rushdie’s criticism of power space and colonial relationship in his novels.The subject of power uses space barrier and internal order to build power space,and uses discourse,knowledge education and other disciplinary means to build power relations,which creates a difficult survival dilemma for the governed.The author writes about the oppression of power and the resistance of the ruled under the power,which reflects the attitude of resisting the oppression of power.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes Rushdie’s novel multicultural space and individual identity crisis.On the one hand,the multicultural space created by Rushdie’s novels reflects the cultural conflict between the East and the West and the discrimination and prejudice of Westerners against the East;on the other hand,it shows the identity crisis of the diaspora ethnic groups in the multicultural space.The fifth chapter is a general overview of Rushdie’s post-colonial critical consciousness through the above three levels of discussion.Rushdie goes straight to the colonial nature and criticizes the ideological expansion of empire;Uphold humanitarian concern and pay attention to the living conditions of marginalized groups;Based on the creative concept of cosmopolitanism,he reflected on the cultural traditions.