New Postcolonial Modes in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Mrs. Dalloway in the Light of Homi K. Bhabha’s Postcolonial Theory

The present study has sought new and unfamiliar modes of postcolonial perspectives in Virginia Woolf’s two globally known novels, The Voyage Out, and Mrs. Dalloway. The key reasons to analyse these novels through the lens of postcolonialism is that first, the above-mentioned novels include numerous scenes that are closely associated with colonialism (Karabulut) and second, there is still an uncertainty amongst scholars about whether Woolf’s works involve signs of imperialism (Mao). In doing so, the current study benefited from Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory proposed in his highly praised book, The Location of Culture. This analysis reveals that not only these novels echo the assumptions of postcolonial theories, but they also offer a subtle critique of the British colonialism.