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GSavino - PostModernism and PostColonialism
by - (2008-10-16)
Up to Learning about Postmodernism and Postcolonialism
- The effects of Colonialism on language, education, religion and culture continue at all levels of society well after the end of colonial rule.
- Post-Colonialism is not so much concerned with chronological issues as with a reassessment of the relationships between cultures in terms of cultural, political and social issues.
- The superficial similarity between Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism lies in the fact that they developed in the same chronological period and often employ the same literary devices.
- One major difference is that Post-Modernism, though political to a certain extent, only questions the conventions of the genres, while Post-Colonialism is more politically oriented.
- Post-Colonialism has greater affinities with marginalised groups and issues such as feminism and class discrimination, than with Post-Modernism.