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
• Despite the joyous stupidity, Trump’s leering glances toward Greenland made clear in less than 24 hours why America and the rest of the globe’s major powers continue to be postcolonial in name only.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024