Representation of women in postcolonial poems, Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol.

Abstract

Though equality has been many years but there are an oppressed women or gender deference in our day to day life which shows misrepresentation of woman by man. As a result the researcher is initiated to conduct this study. Therefore, the main aim of this study is identifying representation of women in postcolonial poems, Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol from postcolonial feminist perspective. The researcher used postcolonial feminist perspective as a frame work of this study. Accordingly, this study analyzes the perception of man towards woman in terms of culture, religion and language, the image of Lawino towards herself through her culture and language and it also examines Lawino’s image towards Clementine in the selected poems. So as to analyze the two poems, some related materials are reviewed like postcolonial theory, postcolonial criticism, postcolonial feminist theory and other related works that have been done before. In addition, by using textual analytical method the findings of representation of women in terms of culture, religion and language are investigated in the analysis. Therefore, thatthough colonialism is gone, its impact is still visible and affect East African women as given in the selected poems.