hybridity in australia: a postcolonial reading of oodgeroo noonuccal’s selected poems

The aim of the present paper is to explore selected poems of oodgeroo noonuccal, the national poet of the australian aborigines, in the light of homi k. bhabha’s postcolonial theories. using a descriptive research methodology, the present study examines the way noonuccal’s poetry fashions resisting discourse in contemporary australia. first of all, the introductory notes on postcolonial approach, colonial history of australia and noonuccal are presented and then postcolonial key terms including hybridity, third space and otherization are employed to read the selected poems with the purpose of highlighting the anticolonial inclinations in them. throughout the study, third space which comes as a result of hybrid cultures is emphasized as a background for reflecting and reinforcing aboriginal tendency in australia. the valiant attempts waging the anticolonial struggles in oodgeroo noonuccal’s poetry include expounding a view of history from the perspective of the colonized, pointing to the disappearance of aboriginal culture and tradition and their revival, protesting against the states’ unjust policies the regarding the aborigines, putting an end to otherization, and issuing a call for a just integration of blacks and whites.