WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Postcolonial literature emerged at the same time that many colonies were fighting their way to independence. It really began picking up as a coherent literary movement in the mid-twentieth century. Many classic postcolonial texts were published between the 1950s and 1990s.

Detailed explanation-2: -A good way to start any definition of postcolonial literature is to think about the origins of the term postcolonialism and how it has been used in literary criticism, from roughly the late 1980s to present times.

Detailed explanation-3: -The post-colonial age refers to the period since 1945, when numerous colonies and possessions of major Western countries began to gain independence, in the wake of the end of World War II.

Detailed explanation-4: -Postcolonial theory became part of the critical toolbox in the 1970s, and many practitioners credit Edward Said’s book Orientalism as being the founding work.

Detailed explanation-5: -Following World War Two European power in the Middle East crumbled and a number of post-colonial states emerged. These states often justified their existence in terms of ideologies that were tied to specific post-colonial, political identities.