Postcolonialism and culture

Abstract

The political phenomenon of postcolonialism emerged in the history of world politics in recent times and remains relevant today. As its name suggests, postcolonialism is the continuation of world colonialism, or rather, one of its forms of expression at a new stage. As is known, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the classical colonial system that already existed in the world began to experience a crisis, rapidly collapsed, and its existence in its original form was terminated. In the middle of the 20th century, it can be said that classical colonialism had become history. But the development of subsequent historical events showed that, in fact, traditional colonialism simply changed its form, and the bourgeois-imperialist colonialism that emerged in a new form was replaced by postcolonial politics. Postcolonialism, on the one hand, refers to the period after the end of foreign imperialist rule and the resulting formations at the cultural, social, and political levels. On the other hand, it is understood as an intellectual movement of postmodernists interested in the history of (European) colonialism and drawing on various impulses from the study of sociology, linguistics, literature, culture, history, and politics. Thus, in this article, it is examined the influence of colonial literature and its relationship with culture highlighting the idea that culture and identity of nations or population groups formed in the context of colonialism have to question the permanence of imperialist structures in various spheres of life.

Keywords:

Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism, Culture, Literature, Ideology, National identity.