postcolonial

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Within what we call the postcolonial or the metropolitan societies, there are different, layered presents.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.

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  • Within what we call the postcolonial or the metropolitan societies, there are different, layered presents. —  Kafila
  • The experience of a range of transitional societies - post-Soviet, postapartheid and postcolonial - suggests that such a fundamentalism would call into question their political existence. —  Darwiniana
  • South Africa is not a solitary example but a prototype for conflicts raging across Africa about the shape of postcolonial political communities and the definition of membership in them. —  Darwiniana
  • David Herman Said expressed the true tragedy of the postcolonial intellectual
  • Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods. —  The Nation: Top Stories
 

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