postdictatorships

Noun

postdictatorship (plural postdictatorships)

1. The government after a dictatorship has ended.
   • If the function of the dictatorships was the epochal ushering of the postmodern stage of capital, the task facing literary writing in postmodern postdictatorships will necessarily differ from previous postdictatorships, in that now the imperative of mourning imposes itself in a context in which...1999, Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 231