Dictionary

postcolonialism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colonial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English colonialism English postcolonialism From post- + colonialism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
   • As a literary theory, postcolonialism examines literature produced both by authors in colonial countries and by colonized peoples responding to colonial legacies by ‘writing back’, or challenging colonial cultural attitudes through literature. 2009, Cheryl McEwan, Postcolonialism and Development, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23:
   • There can be no doubt that Derrida's contribution to postcolonialism is not as clearly politicized as that of Fanon, Sartre or Gandhi, but it is nevertheless crucial in its careful consideration of the contrasting ethics and politics that might inform postcolonial thought. 2014, Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:

Forms

Relateds

postcolonial

Synonyms

postcolonial studies

Translations (9)

fi postkolonialismi (era or attitude) · cmn 後殖民主義 /后殖民主义 (era or attitude) · hi उत्तर उपनिवेशवाद (era or attitude) · fi jälkikolonialismin tutkimus (discipline) · de Postkolonialismus (era or attitude) · fi jälkikolonialismi (era or attitude) · vi chủ nghĩa hậu thực dân (discipline) · cmn 後殖民主義 /后殖民主义 (discipline) · fr études postcoloniales (discipline)