摘要：This paper examines the representation of urban spaces in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love (1999). In particular, it investigates how colonialism – as a cultural activity – produces traces of its hegemony and how these traces transform and fashion the colonial and post-colonial urban spaces in the two novels. Through examining how A Passage to India and The Map of Love present the utilisation of space, this paper explores the ways colonialist superpowers have left traces of their presences which are marked in all of the spaces they subjugate and dominate. Interestingly, space and its concomitant socio-political divisions/hierarchies are viewed, by and large, through the responses and perspectives of the women characters in both novels, represented by Forster’s Adela Quested and Mrs Moore and Soueif’s Anna Winterbourne. The paper will also show how employing Edward Soja’s term of Thirdspace can illuminate the significance of the courtroom episode that each novel presents.
