Postcolonialism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism. countable, uncountable

    "As a literary theory, postcolonialism examines literature produced both by authors in colonial countries and by colonized peoples responding to colonial legacies by ‘writing back’, or challenging colonial cultural attitudes through literature."

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postcolonial studies

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"As a literary theory, postcolonialism examines literature produced both by authors in colonial countries and by colonized peoples responding to colonial legacies by ‘writing back’, or challenging colonial cultural attitudes through literature."

Etymology

From post- + colonialism.

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