Complex sentence: Occasionally, the term "post-colonialism" is applied literally--as the period after colonialism--which is problematic, given that the de-colonized world is filled with "contradictions, of half-finished processes, of confusions, of hybridity, and liminalities".
Split into simpler sentences: Occasionally, the term "post-colonialism" is applied literally--as the period after colonialism. This attribution is is problematic given that the de-colonized world shows numerous examples of "contradictions, of half-finished processes, of confusions, of hybridity, and liminalities".