English Literature Notes

Post Colonial Literature is full of literary terms which are hard to find. I myself as a student find it very hard to find these terms therefore I have collected 18 most important and widely used terms with examples for the students to study and take help from my research. Here are the literary terms  Most Important Post Colonial Literary Terms 1. Postcolonial:              Meriam Webster defines post colonial as “being time after colonialism”. Post colonial is an adjective which defines the time after colonialism. Colonialism is the policy of a country seeking to extend its authority over people and territories. But in late 20 th century all colonial countries were forced to retreat and all the colonies gained independence. So, the thing related to the era after colonialism is called postcolonial. The word is invoked in a wider variety of contexts for post colonial theory, postcolonial era, postcolonial psychology ...