Postcolonialism vs Postcolonial - What's the difference?
postcolonialism | postcolonial |
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.
Following the end of colonial rule
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to postcolonialism
As a noun postcolonialism
is 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.As an adjective postcolonial is
following the end of colonial rule.postcolonialism
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*post-colonialismNoun
postcolonial
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*post-colonialAdjective
(-)- In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
- a postcolonial theory of esthetics
