post-colonial
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In the past, and under her own label, she has explored themes of identity and post-colonial heritage.
From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025
Puthli’s life embodies pop music in the post-colonial world, with all its promise and incomprehension.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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
Dominique Morisseau’s characters are, as the post-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon once described himself, often paralyzed “at the crossroads between nothingness and infinity.”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 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.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
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