postcolonialism
- noun
- /ˌpoʊstˌkɒləˈnɪəlɪzəm/
- Formal
- The field of postcolonialism critically examines the impact of colonial rule on contemporary societies and cultures.
- postcolonialism and postmodernism
- colonialism and postcolonialism
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Watch on YouTubeAnd he says, I can trace these things back to, you know, postmodernism, postcolonialism and the critical theories, right?
- And he says, I can trace these things back to, you know, postmodernism, postcolonialism and the critical theories, right?
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To be sure, many critics have argued for a connection between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and many postcolonial authors, like Rushdie, clearly have learned and adopted much from the techniques of postmodern fiction.
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Her research is located at the intersection of feminist economics, postcolonialism, and the history of economic thought.
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And he says, I can trace these things back to, you know, postmodernism, postcolonialism and the critical theories, right?
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Postmodernism and postcolonialism are the current coin of the realm in the relatively new field of cultural studies.
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Equally important, an extensive theoretical debate has ensued, and most recently, feminist critiques and a focus on postcolonialism have emerged.
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Postcolonialism is an ideology through which colonialist treatment of people is contradicted by allowing previously subjugated voices to be heard.
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Feminists, students of colonialism and postcolonialism, nonwhites, and gays began to question the assumptions of the great conversation and of academic work in general.
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The introduction and growth of cultural studies as a subject in universities since the 1970s occurred at the same time as the development of postcolonialism, that ethos of contemporary life that focuses on the opinions and voices of the colonized rather than the colonizers.
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The Robber Bride, in 1993, marks a moment when the postmodernism and the postcolonialism that have always been discernible in Atwood's work came to the fore in critical dialogue.
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At the end of the twentieth century, Irish Studies has been in a state of critical ferment because of the centeredness of the "post": postcolonialism, postmodernism, post-revisionism, post-nationalism, to mention only the most prevalent "post" discourses.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
postcolonialism = postcolonial (transparent) = post + colonial + ism
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ism' to the adjective 'postcolonial', yielding a movement/theory; the operation is semantically regular.
Etymology
The word postcolonialism breaks into post- meaning 'after', colonial from colony meaning 'a land controlled by another country', and -ism meaning 'a system or idea'. So, postcolonialism is the study and set of ideas about what happens 'after' colonial rule and how people and cultures recover and tell their own stories.