postcolonialism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,uncountable
  2. An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

postcolonialisms plural post-colonialism alternative

词汇关系

相关词
postcolonial

词源

From post- + colonialism.
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