post-colonial
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“Far” traces expansion in two directions: geographic, as Norton’s eye moved beyond California to Japan, Cuba, England; and social, into work breaking new ground on questions of gender, sexuality and post-colonial histories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
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 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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