What is 'Complicit Postcolonialism'?
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Correct answer: Postcolonial writing that inadvertently reinforces colonial tropes while attempting to critique them
This term refers to the paradox where postcolonial literature, often produced and consumed within Western academic and publishing markets, can become entangled in the very power structures it seeks to dismantle, sometimes exoticizing its own culture for a global audience.
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