Identity and Selfhood in the Metaphors of Travel and Movement in Kincaid, Rushdie, and Anzaldua

Abstract

Postcolonial writers such as Kincaid, Rushdie, and Anzaldua have often written on ideas such as home, identity, imagination and exile. Their writings have created (and re-created) the physical and imaginary landscapes of the nation (and imagination) for their readers; engaging them with the fluidity of travel and movement, interconnecting and visceral metaphors that bind and unify their compelling narration with moments of truth and conviction. This paper seeks to discuss how the metaphors of travel and movement validate the notion of identity and selfhood in the novels of the three writers.