postcolonialism
English
Alternative forms
- post-colonialism
Etymology
post- + colonialism
Noun
postcolonialism (countable and uncountable, plural postcolonialisms)
- 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.
- An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
Related terms
Translations
era or attitude
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discipline
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