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transcolonial

transcolonial adjective: involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.

Adjective

transcolonial (comparative more transcolonial, superlative most transcolonial)

  1. Involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.
    • As an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, my meditations on the transcolonial logic of the British Empire were sparked by a haunting fragment of Indian statuary on display in Cameron Library: the head of a bodhisattva, presented to the university, a plaque announced, by a British Army...1997, Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
    • ... best understood and interrogated on a regional, transcolonial level of generalization. This analysis is no less specific because it is based on vampire stories from Tanzania interpreted with vampire stories from Uganda […]2000, Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 122
  2. Between or beyond colonial boundaries.
    • The transcolonial frontier refers to a frontier that lay way beyond any white settlement, beyond the frontier. This type of frontier is represented by the example of the English traders who established a trading post at Port Natal in 1824, and by Coenraad de Buys, an Afrikaner who became the...2004, Bill Nasson, Rob Siebörger, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa), Turning points in history, Ste

Examples of transcolonial in a sentence

  • In both cases, the seeming downfall of 'England' as the hegemonic power was given as the pretext for a new transcolonial model of the Empire.2006, Kaori Nagai, Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland:
  • At the transcolonial level, white spaces were organized and shored up outwardly through the sharing of restrictive immigration policies among (former) British colonies.2010, Penelope Edmonds, Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities, UBC Press, →ISBN, page...
  • […] century was held together increasingly by large transcolonial companies.2012, K. Candlin, The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815, Springer, →ISBN:
  • The transcolonial frontier refers to a frontier that lay way beyond any white settlement, beyond the frontier.2004, Bill Nasson, Rob Siebörger, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa), Turning points in history, Ste

Forms of transcolonial

comparativemore transcolonial
superlativemost transcolonial

Origin of transcolonial

From trans- + colonial.

Questions about transcolonial

What does transcolonial mean?
Transcolonial means involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.
How do you use transcolonial in a sentence?
In both cases, the seeming downfall of 'England' as the hegemonic power was given as the pretext for a new transcolonial model of the Empire.
What part of speech is transcolonial?
Transcolonial is an adjective.

Words near transcolonial in the dictionary

  1. transcolated
  2. transcolates
  3. transcolating
  4. transcolation
  5. transcollateral
  6. transcolonial
  7. transcolumnar
  8. transcommunication
  9. transcommunity
  10. transcompartmental
  11. transcompilation

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