Post-colonialism

Time cover about the 1984 Bhopal disaster, when a pesticide plant owned by the US firm Union Carbide released toxic chemicals, killing tens of thousands.
Post-colonialism (also known as post-colonial theory) refers to a set of theories in philosophy and literature that grapple with the legacy of colonial rule. As a literary theory or critical approach it deals with literature produced in countries that were once, or are now, colonies of other countries. It may also deal with literature written in or by citizens of colonizing countries that takes colonies or their peoples as its subject matter. Postcolonial theory became part of the critical toolbox in the 1970s, and many practitioners take Edward Said's book Orientalism (1978) to be the theory's founding work.