What are some issues that Postcolonialism addresses?

deals
on some level with all the issues that people have faced since the breakup of the large colonial
empires. For England-oriented writers, this era is often marked as beginning with the
independence of the South Asian nations after World War II, especially the 1947 partition of
India and Pakistan. For the Americas, however, postcolonial theory has been applied much
earlier, as independence from Spain began to be achieved in the early nineteenth
century.

Three key areas that this body of theory addresses, often through
analysis of literary works, are race, hybridity, and self-determination.

Because European colonial expansion and control went hand in hand with the development of
theories of race and racial hierarchy, the imposition of white superiority as a concept was
accompanied by white supremacy in action. When nonwhite persons were judged mentally inferior,
they were considered incompetent to administer themselves and constituted the majority of the
subaltern. The...

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