Analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Saltand Saffron:A Postcolonial Discourse of Displacement

Abstract

 Shamsie’s novel, Salt and Saffron, is a Postcolonial fictional discourse that revolves around the changes brought in the lives of people as a result of colonization of India. This study explores displacements created as a consequence of colonialism in the light of postcolonial theory of place and displacement by Ashcroft et al. (1990).Textual analysis has been used as a research method to explore how the writer has portrayed the impacts of colonialism on her fictional characters .The study takes into account the psychological and social influence of English education and English ways of living and their impact on identity of the colonized subjects.