postcolonialism

English

Alternative forms

  • post-colonialism

Etymology

post- + colonialism

Noun

postcolonialism (countable and uncountable, plural postcolonialisms)

  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.
  2. An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.

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