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When colonialism and postcolonialism are compared, it is seen that colonialism is expressed as the control and administration of other people's lands, while postcolonialism is essentially the expression of the colonial countries' social, political, religious and cultural self-government. Chronologically, European countries started the colonial process in the fifteenth century and Britain joined this group. By the twentieth century, the dissolution process began with the decline of Britain's glory and the independence of the colonies. Thus, post-colonialism showed itself.
Postcolonialism combines a set of theoretical approaches focusing on the direct effects of post-colonialism and the processes of systematic cultural oppression with a literature of subjugation through imperial power structures. Therefore, postcolonialism evaluates the identity of the subaltern, the unrepresented, the exploited and the colonized in the context of the literature and philosophy of resistance to the regulations of colonialism. Mentioned among postcolonial theorists such as Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha's interpretation of cultural hybridity appeals to a third space beyond the perceived at its exploiter and exploited poles, and this brings along a multicultural space perception. Indeed, it is seen that the postcolonial writer Mamoon Azam, who imitates western intellectuals in Kureishi's novel "The Last Word", contemplates to explain the perception of space of the hybrid oriental, who has chosen to live in postcolonial Britain as a place, has been subject to a European perspective and has separated from its own roots. In this context, it is clear that Kureishi makes psychological, social and cultural references to the effect of space on identity, determines the codes of the immigrant's portrait of existence and declares the new human type of multicultural Britain.