postcolonial

• post-colonial

From post- + colonial.

postcolonial (not comparable)

1. Following the end of colonial rule.

   In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.

   • 2011, Rashmi Varma, The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     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 carrying out information processing and control functions.”

   • 2016 March 3, Jack Shenker, “Welcome to the land that no country wants”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 April 2020:

     The new postcolonial government in Khartoum immediately declared that its national borders matched the tweaked boundaries stipulated in the second proclamation, making the Hala’ib triangle Sudanese.

2. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.

   a postcolonial theory of esthetics

   • 2014, Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:

     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.

postcolonial (plural postcolonials)

1. A person living in a postcolonial society.

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• IPA^(key): /posdkoloˈnjal/ [pozð̞.ko.loˈnjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: post‧co‧lo‧nial

postcolonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural postcoloniales)

1. postcolonial