Decolonizing Gendered Subjectivities in Mohammed Hanif's Rebel English Academy: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Language, Power, and Identity

This study investigates the construction and decolonization of gendered subjectivities in Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy through the combined lenses of postcolonial feminism and computational literary analysis. While existing scholarship on Hanif primarily focuses on satire, authoritarian politics, and postcolonial nationalism, relatively little attention has been devoted to the ways language functions as an instrument for negotiating gender, identity, and colonial epistemologies within the novel.

The study integrates qualitative textual interpretation with Monte Carlo simulation (10,000 iterations) to model the probabilistic interaction among six thematic constructs — colonial linguistic dominance, female agency, patriarchal authority, educational empowerment, identity negotiation, and linguistic resistance — drawing on the theoretical contributions of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault.

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