Postcolonialism

It deals with cultural identity in colonised societies: the dilemmas of
developing a national identity after colonial rule; the ways in which
writers articulate and celebrate that identity (often reclaiming it
from and maintaining strong connections with the coloniser); the
ways in which the knowledge of the colonised (subordinated)
people has been generated and used to serve the coloniser's
interests; and the ways in which the coloniser's literature has
justified colonialism via images of the colonised as a perpetually
inferior people, society and culture. These inward struggles of
identity, history, and future possibilities often occur in the metropolis
and, ironically, with the aid of postcolonial structures of power, such
as universities. Not surprisingly, many contemporary postcolonial
writers reside in London, Paris, New York and Madrid