Aspects of postcolonialism in the contemporary performance poetry of gombilla the poet

Abstract

This study sought to identify and analyse the aspects of postcolonialism in the performance poetry of Gombilla the Poet, and to ascertain the performance and literary styles he employed in drumming home these issues. A qualitative cross-analysis of the poems was done using eight poems by Gombilla the Poet. Orientalism, African values, Ghanaian culture and identity, hybridity and mimicry, subalternism, and effects of capitalism and globalization on communal living were found in the poems. In the eight sampled performance poems, Gombilla deplored orthodox performance techniques such as repetition, piling of adjectives, parallelism, and allusion. In addition to personal techniques such as juxtaposition and contradiction, and the narrator's approach. This study also found that Gombilla dominantly uses metaphors, symbolism, similes, puns, rhetorical questions, and poetic sound devices. The extensive use of diverse performance techniques and figurative communication, supports the fact that his performance poetry is not only rich, but an embodiment of total performan