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Abstract

This paper examines Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and E. M. Forster's A Passage to India using dislocation in postcolonial theory. Postcolonial dislocation creates an opportunity to explore the rootlessness and the crises of identity that occurs when colonialism affects the culture of both the colonizer and the colonized in the two novels. In A Passage to India the paper examines the homelessness of the British colonialist as occasioned by them leaving their country and home and travelling to India: of the Indians as the colonial masters make India not to be a home, not even for Indians. In Rushdie's Midnight's Children the paper looks at how the author shows the homelessness of Indians and their attempt at finding a home and the attendant homelessness that occurs to the individual and the nation through contact with colonialism and independence. The different ways that the two authors bring out the issue of postcolonial homelessness is highlighted with colonialism, post colonialism and migration being the chiefcause ofhomelessness in the novels.