Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism is a critical concept within contemporary cultural studies characterized by attempts to explain the development, conditions, and consequences of the experience of modern colonialism. Postcolonial theorists generally focus on the empires of European nation-states that were consolidated in the nineteenth century and were largely dismantled in the mid-twentieth century. America's growing empire during the same period has also increasingly been subject to postcolonial cultural analysis.... ...
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