The present study contends that, a break in the continuity of such a tradition could be observed with the global spread of neo-liberalism during late 1970s and 1980s, which could be discerned through how the idea of travel being represented in the postcolonial novel. Therefore,the years after 1950s saw the emergence of a host of authors, who in their mother tongue or in the coloniser’s tongue narrated such experiences, while various Eastern and Western critics were interested in theorising the postcolonial subject. As a literary cannon, postcolonial literature is primarily concerned with bringing into light the experience of being colonised by the “white” Europeans, and the struggles of oscillating between two value systems, i.e., the indigenous value systems and the values brought into the colonies by the colonisers. The objective of this study is to re-interpret the idea of travel, represented in the postcolonial novel, as a motif that brings out the dialectic influence of neo-liberal values in defining the contemporary postcolonial subject.
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