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
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
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
The latter edifice is post-colonial in date, but, like many other buildings of its class, shows the conservative methods of the early builders and their immediate followers trained under their instruction and example.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
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