postcolonial
postcolonial adjective: following the end of colonial rule.
Adjective
postcolonial (not comparable)
- Following the end of colonial rule.
- In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
- The post-1990s retreat of manufacturing industry in many postcolonial cities across the world and the demands of first world capitalism paved the way to financial and service industries, such that the postcolonial city begins to function as a “node of an inter-metropolitan and global network...2011, Rashmi Varma, The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay, Routledge, →ISBN
- Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.
- a postcolonial theory of esthetics
- There can be no doubt that Derrida's contribution to postcolonialism is not as clearly politicized as that of Fanon, Sartre or Gandhi, but it is nevertheless crucial in its careful consideration of the contrasting ethics and politics that might inform postcolonial thought.2014, Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112
Noun
postcolonial (plural postcolonials)
- A person living in a postcolonial society.
postcolonial meaning in Hindi and Indonesian
postcolonial in Hindi
- following the end of colonial rule
- उत्तर औपनिवेशिक uttar aupniveśik
- of or pertaining to postcolonialism
- उत्तर औपनिवेशिक uttar aupniveśik
postcolonial in Indonesian
- following the end of colonial rule
- pascakolonial
- of or pertaining to postcolonialism
- pascakolonial
Examples of postcolonial in a sentence
- This space within the Trinity corresponds to another space—the Third Space conjectured by postcolonial theory.
- How does sinophone postcolonial studies both critically engage and disengage with the “rise of China”?
- Counterdiscourses such as postcolonial and resistance literatures struggle with their hybrid nature.
Forms of postcolonial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | post-colonial |
| Noun | |
| plural | postcolonials |
Origin of postcolonial
From post- + colonial.
Words formed from postcolonial
Questions about postcolonial
- What does postcolonial mean?
- Postcolonial means following the end of colonial rule.
- What is postcolonial in Hindi?
- Postcolonial in Hindi is उत्तर औपनिवेशिक (uttar aupniveśik). See Postcolonial meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is postcolonial?
- Postcolonial can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near postcolonial in the dictionary
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