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postcolonialism
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Postcolonialism is the academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. The field started to emerge in the 1960s, as scholars from previously colonized countries began publishing on the lingering effects of colonialism, developing an analysis of the history, culture, literature, and discourse of imperial power. It is part of the critical theory framework in broader sense, and more narrowly, critical race theory.
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- Purpose and basic concepts
- Approaches
- Colonialist discourse
- Postcolonial identity
- Difficulty of definition
- Notable theoreticians and theories
- Frantz Fanon and subjugation
- Edward Said and orientalism
- Gayatri Spivak and the subaltern
- Homi K. Bhabha and hybridity
- {{Anchor|alternative modernity}}R. Siva Kumar and alternative modernity
- Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Derek Gregory and the colonial present
- Amar Acheraiou and Classical influences
- {{Anchor|Postcolonial literary study|Postcolonial literary theory}}Postcolonial literary study
- Application
- Middle East
- Africa
- Asia
- Eastern Europe
- Ireland
- Structural adjustment programmes (SAPs)
- Postcolonial literature
- Foundational works
- Scholarly projects
- Criticism
- Undermining of universal values
- Fixation on national identity
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Postcolonialism is the academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. The field started to emerge in the 1960s, as scholars from previously colonized countries began publishing on the lingering effects of colonialism, developing an analysis of the history, culture, literature, and discourse of imperial power. It is part of the critical theory framework in broader sense, and more narrowly, critical race theory.
==Purpose and basic concepts== As an epistemology (i.e., a study of knowledge, its nature, and verifiability), ethics (moral philosophy), and as a political science (i.e., in its concern with affairs of the citizenry), the field of postcolonialism addresses the matters that constitute the postcolonial identity of a decolonized people, which derives from: the colonizer's generation of cultural knowledge about the colonized people; and how that cultural knowledge was applied to subjugate a geographically or culturally distinct people into a colony of the colonizing empire, which, after initial invasion, was effected by means of the cultural identities of 'colonizer' and 'colonized'.