ABSTRACT
The post-space journey suggests movement without arrival or departure, a strategic nomadism that affirms a process of travelling defiant of absolutes. To take the former approach is to risk a more introspective, possibly apolitical dialogue, where the reduction of spaces to texts means suggesting the possibility of unproblematic rewriting. The transformative power of these authors and their attempts to present a post-space vision to use chaos to find spaces of resistance in the wake of hopelessness is a powerful message that is as necessary for reform as starkly realist representations of violence and oppression. In their representation of negotiations of power at the levels of journey, city, home and body, postcolonial authors suggest that the nation-state can no longer be seen as the apotheosis of anti-colonial resistance. Refusing a transcendental position, the postcolonial author mediates fluidity with a continued claim on the body as the postcolonial subject's most vital asset.
