POSTCOLONIALISM /POSTCOMMUNISM
POSTCOLONIALISM /POSTCOMMUNISM

Summary/Abstract: The initial chronological meaning of the term postcolonialism, used to designate the post independence period of former colonies, has been expanded since the 1990s and is used more inclusively to refer to the study of “the political, linguistic and cultural experience of societies that were former European colonies beginning from the time of their colonisation” (Ashcroft et al., Key Concepts 186). According to the same authors, the term includes the study and analysis of European territorial conquests, the institutions of European colonial powers, the discursive operations of empires, subject construction in colonial discourse, the resistance of those subjects and finally, “the differing responses to such incursions and their contemporary colonial legacies in both pre- and post-independence nations and communities”. (Ashcroft et al., Key Concepts 187)

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