post-colonial
Britishadjective
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Hong Kong's first post-colonial leader Tung Chee-hwa has died aged 89, his office said Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The blood-soaked history of Chile — not dissimilar from that of most post-colonial nations — receives a searing filmic indictment in this striking western.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Too often, he found, they relied on "clichéd", post-colonial motifs.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
The 1981 Booker Prize win for “Midnight’s Children” established him as a dynamic voice of post-colonial literature.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
This was, I thought to myself, the stuff of a hundred feature stories, the mother-lode of post-colonial memorabilia, the gateway to phantasmagorical explorations.
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