DISPUTED ORIGINS AND HYBRID BLOOMS INDIVIDUALITY CONFRONTATION AND LANGUAGE REPOSSESSION IN THE SELECTED POSTCOLONIAL POETRY

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11      Published : Sep 2025
Authored by : SamanSalah , Khair-Un-NisaAzeem , DurdanaRafique

11 Pages : 125-131

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11      Published : Sep 2025

Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry

    Postcolonial poetry transforms the legacies of empire into potent sites of resistance and identity formation. This paper argues that the poetry of Walcott, Bennett, Soyinka, Ramanujan, and Faiz employs distinct poetic strategies to expose colonial violence, psychological fragmentation, and cultural erasure while actively reclaiming agency through linguistic innovation and hybrid expression. Drawing on Homi Bhabha’s hybridity, Frantz Fanon’s decolonization theory, and Gayatri Spivak’s subaltern framework, the analysis reveals how these poets navigate postcolonial ambivalence. Walcott’s poems embody Fanonian alienation ("divided to the vein"), while Bennett’s poetry weaponizes Jamaican Creole to subvert linguistic hegemony, enacting Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s decolonization of the mind. Soyinka’s "Night" mirrors Fanon’s "pitfalls of national consciousness" through metaphors of predatory disillusionment. Ramanujan’s poem reclaims indigenous folklore to center female agency, countering Orientalist discourse. Faiz’s poetry repurposes the Urdu ghazal to prioritize collective struggle over personal love, voicing Spivak’s subaltern amid state oppression.

    (1) Saman Salah
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
    (2) Khair-Un-Nisa Azeem
    MPhil Scholar, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
    (3) Durdana Rafique
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Turbat, Balochistan, Pakistan.
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    APA : Salah, S., Azeem, K., & Rafique, D. (2025). Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry. Global Social Sciences Review, X(III), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11
    CHICAGO : Salah, Saman, Khair-Un-Nisa Azeem, and Durdana Rafique. 2025. "Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry." Global Social Sciences Review, X (III): 125-131 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11
    HARVARD : SALAH, S., AZEEM, K. & RAFIQUE, D. 2025. Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 125-131.
    MHRA : Salah, Saman, Khair-Un-Nisa Azeem, and Durdana Rafique. 2025. "Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 125-131
    MLA : Salah, Saman, Khair-Un-Nisa Azeem, and Durdana Rafique. "Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry." Global Social Sciences Review, X.III (2025): 125-131 Print.
    OXFORD : Salah, Saman, Azeem, Khair-Un-Nisa, and Rafique, Durdana (2025), "Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry", Global Social Sciences Review, X (III), 125-131
    TURABIAN : Salah, Saman, Khair-Un-Nisa Azeem, and Durdana Rafique. "Disputed Origins and Hybrid Blooms: Individuality, Confrontation, and Language Repossession in the Selected Postcolonial Poetry." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. III (2025): 125-131. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).11