postnational
- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstˈnæʃənl/
- Jargon
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postnacional
- Europeans entered a postnational era, which was not only a good thing in itself but also a model for other regions.
- postnational novel
- postnational citizenship
- postnational identities
Examples
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14. Others view the process of immigration in the broad context of a "postnational network of diasporas."
Academic text (1998) -
One of the main characteristics that makes this a postnational novel, therefore, is its insistence on national identity in both characters and plots.
Academic text (1995) -
However, I would suggest that local literature is every bit as postnational as the postnational novel.
Academic text (1995) -
Only in an era of postnational citizenship has the idea of the nation-state become anachronistic.
Academic text (2004) -
Postnational aspects in local literature occur, then, at the interface of that literature with the discursive production of the nation-state.
Academic text (1995) -
At the very least, they point to revisions within current thinking about Americanization as it negotiates global and postnational paradigms.
Academic text (2001) -
The conditions of translation, publication, and distribution that characterize the postnational novel, however, determine that the public for such a novel is necessarily, in greatest measure, a public that does not claim the national identity that such a novel represents.
Academic text (1995) -
Like the postnational novel, local literature operates a constant reappraisal of the national identity category naturalized or rendered traditional by modernity.
Academic text (1995) -
The quest for cultural nationality has been almost entirely surpassed by a quest for transnational and postnational identities and prospects.
Academic text (2007) -
In a postnational world, people increasingly identify with global issues rather than just their own countries.
Synonyms
15
6.6
Involving more than one country
2
8.8
About organizations and actions that involve more than one country
Relating to rules or actions that affect several countries
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word postnational combines post- 'after' and national 'of a country', just like postwar shows 'after'. So it describes a time, idea, or view that goes beyond the traditional nation or its borders.