English Dictionary

postcolonialism

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

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.

日本語の意味

植民地主義による支配が終了した後の時代や、その時代の態度・風潮。特に1960年代以降、多くの植民地が独立した状況やその影響を指す。 / 植民地支配の終了後、文化や社会、政治において現れる変化や考察を含む概念としての用法。

Her research on postcolonialism explores how literature reshapes national identities after independence.

彼女の脱植民地主義に関する研究は、文学が独立後に国民のアイデンティティをどのように再形成するかを探っている。

意味（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.

意味（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.

postcolonialisms （ plural ）