How to Use postcolonial in a Sentence

postcolonial

adjective

• The stuff of epics, spy stories and postcolonial tragedies.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• Much of the postcolonial world is not so abundantly blessed.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• Judges who understood the nuances of a postcolonial space liked it.
  — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• Inescapable at the sharp ends of society, alive and kicking in the game’s postcolonial setting.
  — Laurence Russell, Wired, 7 June 2021
• As a youth, Karegeya embodied the promise of postcolonial Africa.
  — Claude Gatebuke, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2021
• The tall-ship era marked an economic high tide in Maine, a postcolonial boom time followed by 100 years of recession.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2021
• The tall-ship era marked an economic high tide in Maine, a postcolonial boom time followed by 100 years of recession.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
• So with a vote share that would make a dictator grin (99.2 percent), John Lee became the fifth person selected to lead the city in the postcolonial era.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
• During the postcolonial era, La Llorona was portrayed as an Indigenous woman who bears two sons to a wealthy Spaniard.
  — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• As the largest nation to have shaken off colonialism, India saw itself as the leader of the postcolonial world.
  — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Looking back on Chad’s history of postcolonial coups and revolts, he could be coy.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• And the trial has touched only lightly on the vexed issue of whether, as happened often in postcolonial Africa, foreign powers had a hand in the young leader’s death.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
• The same postcolonial theorists who assign your books & videos in classes.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 1 June 2018
• The garden in this work is a larger metaphor for postcolonial states: All this beauty conceals trauma and violence.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• France, one of the tournament favorites, has drawn the bulk of its strength from its minority and immigrant communities, linked to the wide sweep of the French postcolonial world.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• In contrast, the book holds up the inspiring trajectory of South Africa from racist heartland to truly postcolonial state.
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Like many postcolonial people, the Na’vi now support themselves by selling a version of their culture to outsiders.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• In the years since, Rushdie himself has been seen as less a postcolonial messenger than a transnational literary celebrity.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• But in recent years, a growing number of influential states from the postcolonial world have embraced this approach.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Bakewell also discusses the many critiques of humanism, from figures like the postcolonial writer Frantz Fanon and the philosopher Michel Foucault.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• In the postcolonial world, ethnic domination is simply not going to fly.
  — Ziad Asali, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
• Where the postcolonial theorists were right is that caste identity as a group in relation to other castes was somewhat flexible (e.g., Jats and Marathas in the past, Nadars today).
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
• Charles is also now head of the Commonwealth, a postcolonial group of 54 countries comprising 2.4 billion people.
  — Mike Memoli, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
• The films were popular among all Ghanaians during the postcolonial period.
  — Katie Young, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2021
• But wars and conflicts also erupted after the Soviet Union collapsed and postcolonial debt-settling spiked.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• Despite the movement’s victory, the postcolonial corruptions of power turn out to produce new bosses who, despite a cynical veneer of populism, are much the same as the old.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• The senator, dressed down in a brown jacket and jeans, said that Yupanqui’s Virgin had a special importance against the background of postcolonial history.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The concept of postcolonial studies has only been present since the early 2000s in France, nearly three decades after its emergence in Anglophone universities.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
• Queen Elizabeth was seen by many as the architect and greatest defender of the postcolonial Commonwealth, composed mostly of former colonies.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
• This accessible survey of African wars in the postcolonial era rightly emphasizes internal conflicts, which have caused more violence in the region than interstate wars.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024