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That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.
Robyn Davidson

Meaning of "post-colonial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POST-COLONIAL

post-colonial play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POST-COLONIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Post-Colonial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POST-COLONIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism, to the human consequences of controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land. Drawing from postmodern schools of thought, Postcolonial Studies analyse the politics of knowledge by analyzing the functional relations of social and political power that sustain colonialism and neocolonialism—the how and the why of an imperial regime's representations of the imperial colonizer and of the colonized people. As a genre of contemporary history, postcolonialism questions and reinvents the modes of cultural perception—the ways of viewing and of being viewed. As anthropology, postcolonialism records human relations among the colonial nations and the subaltern peoples exploited by colonial rule.

Definition of post-colonial in the English dictionary

The definition of post-colonial in the dictionary is existing or occurring since a colony gained independence.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POST-COLONIAL

post-and-rail fence
post-and-rail tea
post-bellum
post-consumer
post-cyclic
post-dated
post-fascist
post-feminism
post-Fordism
post-Fordist
post-free
post-holder
Post-it
Post-it Note
post-modernism
post-modernist
post-obit
post-obit bond
post-op
post-paid

WORDS THAT END LIKE POST-COLONIAL

anticolonial
antimonial
archegonial
baronial
ceremonial
colonial
coronial
genial
hegemonial
intercolonial
matrimonial
monial
neocolonial
oogonial
patrimonial
perigonial
precolonial
semicolonial
spermatogonial
sporogonial
testimonial

Synonyms and antonyms of post-colonial in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «post-colonial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POST-COLONIAL

Find out the translation of post-colonial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of post-colonial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «post-colonial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

后殖民
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

post- colonial
570 millions of speakers

English

post-colonial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उत्तर उपनिवेशवादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Постколониальный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pós- colonial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উত্তর-ঔপনিবেশিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

post-coloniale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Post-kolonial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

post-kolonialen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

植民地独立後の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포스트 식민
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Post-kolonial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hậu thuộc địa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிந்தைய காலனித்துவ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वसाहतीनंतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Post-kolonyal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

post- coloniale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postkolonialna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

постколоніальний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

post- colonial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετα - αποικιακή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

post- koloniale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

postkoloniala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postkoloniale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of post-colonial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POST-COLONIAL»

The term «post-colonial» is regularly used and occupies the 77.892 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POST-COLONIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about post-colonial

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5 QUOTES WITH «POST-COLONIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word post-colonial.
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George Ayittey
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
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Satya Bhabha
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
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Patrick Chappatte
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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Robyn Davidson
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.
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Jessica Hagedorn
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POST-COLONIAL»

Discover the use of post-colonial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to post-colonial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues that characterize post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities, Among the subjects defined and ...
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 2000
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The Post-colonial Studies Reader
This collection covers a huge range of topics and issues, and features nearly ninety of the most widely read, influential and innovative pieces of writing.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 1995
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Post-Colonial Shakespeares
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ania Loomba, Martin Orkin, 2013
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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial ...
This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 2003
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The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues
The Post-colonial Critic 6 In 1987, Gayatri Spivak held a visiting professorship at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she offered a course entitled "Texts and Contexts: Theories of Interpretation," ...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sarah Harasym, 2014
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Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Lokangaka Losambe, Devi Sarinjeive, 2001
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Politics and Post-colonial Theory: African Inflections
Taking post-colonial theory out of its literary confines and extending it in order to understand the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial African politics, this text shows how Africans transform and inflect their inherited ...
D. Pal S. Ahluwalia, 2001
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Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores ways in which post-colonial theory interconnects with translation studies. The issues examined here include Brazilian cannabalistic theories in literary transfer.
Susan Bassnett, Harish Trivedi, 1999
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Post-Colonial Transformation
This comprehensive analysis of the major features of post-colonial studies presents a revolutionary view of how post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control.
Bill Ashcroft, 2013
10
Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory
The first book of its kind in the field, this timely introduction to post- colonial theory offers lucid and accessible summaries of the major work of key theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said.Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak.
Peter Childs, Patrick Williams, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POST-COLONIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term post-colonial is used in the context of the following news items.
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The synergy of European laissez-faire attitude to migration …
A common post-colonial trend was to leave countries vulnerable to coups. Syria was under Emergency Law from 1963 to 2011, when most ... «Middle East Monitor, Jul 15»
2
Morocco's skirt length battle: What are the deeper questions?
Women's clothing is often a lightning rod issue in post-colonial Muslim societies, where differing views on the primacy of individual freedom ... «Middle East Eye, Jul 15»
3
Rainbow SA a dangerous myth
Since we want to believe that we live in a post-colonial/apartheid social formation, we downplay the continuing historical currents of violence ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
4
Mawere Business Class: God's time
No one can claim that in the post-colonial era, the majority of humans living in Africa have been inhibited from making choices about how to use ... «New Zimbabwe.com, Jul 15»
5
10 Classic African Movies You Should Know
Though African men and women were once equal in antiquity, post-colonial modernity has led many to mistreat women through the use of a ... «Atlanta Black Star, Jul 15»
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Are You Happy or Are You Gay?
So in essence, in pre-colonial Africa, homosexuality was wildly practised, so why the post-colonial push to make it illegal? Where did this notion ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Continent Needs Presidential Commission Governance
In sum, all the tested political governance systems since post-colonial period to date have only but birthed egoistic leaders, interested majorly ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Fred Bridgland: Obama's inspirational lecture to Kenyans may go …
... arrested – he also highlighted the all-important role that the post-colonial young of Kenya are playing in the rewriting of the African narrative. «The National, Jul 15»
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Should Androids have the Right to Have Children, like Star Trek's …
She uses feminist theory and post-colonial theory to explain how “the human” is related to our understanding of “normal” and how this in turn is ... «Scientific Computing, Jul 15»
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A Century-Old Relationship
... peace, and development, and they had an inclination to cling to power-an attribute that was common across post-colonial African leadership. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Post-Colonial [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/post-colonial>. Apr 2024 ».
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