Postcolonial Orientalism preserved colonialist residues under altered forms of power.

Evidence

By the middle of the twentieth century, and with the majority of “third world” countries gaining so-called independence, Orientalism entered a new, postcolonialist stage, one that left it with residues of the colonialist heritage, but with altered forms of power. This stage, beginning sometime after World War II and partly ending in the 1980s, shifted the focus of the field from direct forms of colonialism and its justification as mission civilisatrice to a reelaboration and adjustment of the ways in which the “Orient” was now to be seen. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 467

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonialism’s legacies persist long after colonial rule ends. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 257; Postcolonial films legitimized secular-modern authority precisely through its forged, fraudulent English — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2055; Postcolonial inheritances constitute a violent but enabling starting position rather than a clean break — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 174 (+7 more)