postcolonial
Speech parts
1. postcolonial - Noun
2. postcolonial - Adjective
Meaning
Following the end of colonial rule.
In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.
a postcolonial theory of esthetics
postcolonial (plural postcolonials)
A person living in a postcolonial society.
Phrases with the word
Examples
The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.
For example, postcolonial scholars, believed that colonizing powers explained an ‘other’ who were there to dominate, civilize, and extract resources through colonization of land.
He also explores the post-colonial politics in Walcott's work, calling him "the postcolonial writer par excellence."
Everyday Communalism and Working with Muslims, two new books by Sudha Pai, Sajjan Kumar and Farah Naqvi talk about how living in postcolonial India has been tough for the Muslims community.
He also cautioned against the trap of victimhood in postcolonial fiction, which could lead the oppressed to become as prejudiced as their former oppressors, a confluence of thought, vision and philosophy he shares with Nelson Mandela.
The course commences through exploring the development of the conventional understanding of universal human rights and then moves to critiquing this concept from cultural relativist, postmodern, postcolonial and feminist perspectives.