University of Kurdistan Critical Literary Studies 2676-699X 2 1 2020 03 01 Hybridity in Australia: A Postcolonial Reading of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Selected Poems 39 56 61402 10.34785/J014.2020.213 EN Mahdi Javidshad PhD in English Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 0000-0003-1901-1458 Amirhossein Nemati Graduate Student of English Languages and Literature, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2020 01 30 The aim of this article is to study 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, introductory notes on postcolonial movement, colonial history of Australia and Noonuccal are presented and then postcolonial key terms such as hybridity, third space and otherization are applied to 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. Finally, issues such as 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 regarding the Aborigines, putting an end to otherization and issuing a call for a just integration of blacks and whites are all considered as valiant attempts waging the anticolonial struggles in Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poetry. https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_61402_57882baea7237befff5f171978e39ac8.pdf