COLONIAL POLITICS AND DISSONANCE IN SELF: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SELECT POEMS OF W.H. AUDEN, ANDRIENNE RICH AND TED HUGHES

In the postmodern world, though all the countries are enjoying political
independence they fail to wield the absolute freedom as neocolonial ideologies
stemming from the internal culture suppress the individual, and shatter the self and
identity. The colonial regime of the occidental people ends in the mid of twentieth
century, yet they colonize the whole world psychologically, economically and in
terms of gender in which the power does not come from the outside, but from the
inside of the state. The colonial temperament of the occidental people continues to
flow in their veins though they fail to detain the colonies under their imperial
power. Being colonized by the occidental people, the oriental people fail to
obliterate the colonial experience from their minds as it now takes the form of
colonial hegemony in which people voluntarily accept the colonial ideologies, and
neocolonialism in which the people are colonized by the internal structure of the
society bestowing with value loaded ideologies. The main focus of this paper is to
show the implied colonial politics embedded in the postcolonial writings and how
the neocolonial ideologies break the self into two contrary being that shatters the
resonance in the individual.