postcolonial
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- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstkəˈloʊniəl/
- Formal
- The postcolonial era has sparked a re-examination of history and cultural narratives in colonized nations.
- postcolonial trauma
- postcolonial state
- postcolonial context
Examples
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Subsequent maps produced by colonial and postcolonial authorities have their own problems.
Academic text (1994) -
Cheah's ultimate point, however, is that even Fanon's colonial-based model proves insufficient in a postcolonial world of globalized finance capital.
Academic text (2008) -
Telling the Other: The Question of Value in Modern and Postcolonial Writing.
Academic text (1993) -
African leaders had an interest in demonstrating to their followers that the postcolonial state would be different.
Academic text (1999) -
Soyinka is concerned, however, with the use and function of violence in the postcolonial state.
Academic text (2008) -
With the failure to create a nation-state, African postcolonial democratic governments came increasingly under attack from their own people.
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Like their predecessors, postcolonial African states have typically remained distant from their societies.
Academic text (1992) -
What, then, is the role of the poet when confronted with the traumatic realities of postcolonial Africa?
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Before concluding, I wish to consider briefly the intersection between gender and trauma in these postcolonial texts.
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As such, the novels instruct readers about the workings of postcolonial trauma narratives and trauma theory more generally.
Academic text (2008)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Postcolonial is made of post- meaning 'after' and colonial from colony, meaning 'a place controlled by another country'. So, postcolonial describes the time, ideas, and effects that come 'after' colonial rule and how that history shapes a country's culture.