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post-colonialism

post-colonialism is the alternative spelling of postcolonialism.

Meaning of postcolonialism

Noun

postcolonialism (countable and uncountable, plural postcolonialisms)

  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.
  2. 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

Forms of post-colonialism

pluralpost-colonialisms

Questions about post-colonialism

What is post-colonialism the alternative spelling of?
Post-colonialism is the alternative spelling of postcolonialism.

Words near post-colonialism in the dictionary

  1. post-Christian
  2. post-circumcision
  3. post-classical
  4. post-coital
  5. post-colonial
  6. post-colonialism
  7. post-Columbian
  8. post-combat
  9. post-communist
  10. post-competition
  11. post-con depression

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Adapted from Wiktionary: post-colonialism (page history and authors); postcolonialism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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