Postcolonial Love Poem: The Role of Water as a Vehicle for Postcolonial Critique in NativeAmerican Poetry
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2024-08-15
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This thesis will focus on Mojave American writer Natalie Diaz’s poetry collection
Postcolonial Love Poem. Through using the method of close reading, two poems will be
analyzed and situated into a broader context of settler colonialism. To guide the analysis, a
theoretical framework will be provided to explore the differences between settler colonialism
and Indigenous thinking. Notable ideas that will be explored is the oneness of body and
environment in Indigenous thought, mainly using theories by three Indigenous scholars, and
the link that exists between colonialism/capitalism and environmental decline. The link
between language and colonialism will also be studied. The thesis focuses on how the
subjugation of the body, of the environment, and of language are all consequences of
colonialism and capitalism. The aim is to understand how poetry can become a site of
resistance as Diaz criticizes and offers alternatives to colonial and capitalist worldviews.
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