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postcolonialism

noun

Etymology

From post- + colonialism.

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻
  2. derived from colōnia
  3. inherited from colane
  4. suffixed as colonial — “colony + -al”
  5. suffixed as colonialism — “colonial + -ism”
  6. prefixed as postcolonialism — “post + colonialism”

Definitions

  1. An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another,…

    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…

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA