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What does postcolonialism mean?

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Noun
  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.
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I must make it clear that postcolonialism has no fixed starting date.
We talked about different subjects without taboos, like postcolonialism and exchange between cultures.
Because the book's community is defined implicitly by the text as an internal colony, theories of postcolonialism serve to highlight colonial structures embedded in the text.
Accordingly, postcolonialism has some branches which includes Ethnocentricity, and thus Eurocentricity, Sinocentricity and Afrocentericity.
This particular literature has emerged from postcolonialism and re-created itself in the globalization of our fast-turning world.
In his third chapter, Rieger talks about postcolonialism from a particularly poignant Western-academic viewpoint.

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