Postcolonialism is a critical approach to literary studies that addresses the experience of “exclusion, denigration, and resistance under colonial control” (Waugh 340). He is interested in the response to colonialism, the takeover and expansion of colonies by people from another colony. Essentially, postcolonialism deals with how race, identity, culture, and ethnicity are represented after the colonization of a region. Postcolonialism pays particular attention to the response of the oppressed, which can be both radical and subtle. Claude McKay, a Jamaican-American poet, wrote "America" ​​during the Harlem Renaissance, and although it was before the postcolonial movement, it exemplifies many postcolonial ideas. “America” deals largely with the two ideas of love and hate. In the first four lines of the poem, the narrator shows his extreme disgust for America. But even though he hates her, he is also forced to depend on her. In the first line, the narrator states, "Though she give me bread of bitterness," which tells the reader that he is relying on America for food and nourishment. It also plays into the idea that America plays the “mother role”: nurturing a child who depends on her for life. We are thus led to believe that the narrator recognizes that America is keeping him alive, even if it does so with bitterness. He goes on to write, “And thrust his tiger's tooth into my throat, / Stealing my breath of life, I will confess” (lines 2-3). Here, readers should notice how the narrator feels that America is stealing his life and draining his spirit. At a time when America was supposed to offer freedom and equality to black people, instead its culture and origins are stolen from the middle of paper. Monastic writers and critics find ways to respond to the colonial oppressor by exploiting the struggles for meaning that take place in the texts of empire themselves… they ridicule and refute the ways in which they themselves were represented. Moreover, crucially, in doing so they express their own subjectivity, their own perceptions of the world. " In "America," that's exactly what McKay did. He writes openly and honestly about his struggles, about the struggles faced by most black people during this time. It depicts the double consciousness and in-betweenness he experiences as a hyphenated American. He's also not afraid to step back, to use America's strength to give him the power to fight against this hatred. Although the poem ends on a more melancholic note, with a bleak future for America, McKay shows that, even there, there is still some small hope for the future...