Postcolonial Eco-Poetic Analysis

Another postcolonial eco-poetic characteristic of nomadism is the “deterritorialised poetics” that attempts to “recover through imagination an ancestral homeland threatened by the reciprocal forces of modernity and colonial oppression” (Auge 269). The postcolonial eco-poetic theory emphasises the language of “deterritorialisation” preferring metaphors of movement because the language of home or domestication suggests the confinement and oppression of the authoritative anthropocentric home or camp. By the extensive use of metaphors of mobility, postcolonial eco-poetics reinforces the idea of the deterritorialised space of non-human nomadism that opens an opportunity of escape or exit from the anthropocentric domestication or locatedness that

Bhabha’s theories of mimicry and hybridity have enriched the discussion of this paradigm by providing a process to concurrently succumb to and challenge assimilation and anthropocentric authoritative power structures. In The Call of the Wild, Buck, the canine animal, resists polarisation or categorisation by hegemonic figures of both human and animal worlds. He is able to command some measure of agency or self-determination. The dialogic paradigm postulates that the interplay and the interrelations of voices can give voice to the elements of the landscape that have been marginalised. Through many dialogic encounters, Buck has proved himself to have a narrative dialogic voice that human and non-human subjects have to understand and to respect. His voice represents and speaks for all marginalised and oppressed subjects whether they are humans or animals. The carnivalesque paradigm interrogates the non-human subject positions within the dominant hegemonic frames imposed by both man and animal. In The Call of the Wild, London brings together heterogeneous collections of characters from all orders of beings – humanity, the animal world, and mythology to mingle in festival-like gatherings in which hegemonic identities are ousted and dethroned. The nomadic paradigm suggests a way of escaping from both anthropic and animalistic boundaries and restrictions to liberate primordial desire energies. In The Call of the Wild, Buck undergoes a nomadic process of answering the call of the wild as a way to cope with terrible events in