what is a postcolonial theory
Postcolonialism (postcolonial theory, postcolonian studies, post-colonial theory) is a specifically postmodern intellectual discourse that consists of reactions to, and analysis of, the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism.aid took the term Orientalism, which was used in the West neutrally to describe the study and artistic depiction of the Orient, and subverted it to mean a constructed binary division of the world into the Orient and the Occident. This binary, also referred to as the East/West binary, is key in postcolonial theory.
Postcolonialism is thus a name for a critical theoretical approach in literary and cultural studies which designates a politics of transformational resistance to unjust and unequal forms of colonial practices. The prefix âpost-â in âpost- colonialâ refers to a historical relation, to a period after colonialism.