postcolonialism

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noun
Definitions
  • 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.

Etymology

Prefix from English colonialism.

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English

colonialism

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