Postcolonial definition

Postcolonial means occurring or existing after the end of the colonial rule.47 However, this term is highly debatable because some argue that colonialism has not ended and that instead we have constructed a “cyborg of postcoloniality [that] is also plagued by ‘something like an imperative to grow new organs, to expand our sensorium and our body to some new, yet unimaginable, perhaps impossible, dimensions.’”48

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Examples of Postcolonial in a sentence

• The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.

• Containing Witchcraft: Conflicting Scenarios in Postcolonial Africa.

• Postcolonial theory emerged in the context of growing internationalization and globalization.

• Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific.

• Reconsidering Witchcraft: Postcolonial Africa and Analytic (Un)certainities.

• An Institutional Perspective on Courts of Law in Colonial And Postcolonial Settings”, Journal of Legal Pluralism 65 (2012): 133-160.

• Postcolonial theorists, such as ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (1952), ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (1957), ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ (1978), and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (1983; 1994) highlighted the effects of the process of colonization and decolonization on societies all over the world, and the continuing oppression of the formerly colonized regions by the First World.

• History, Nation and Narration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008).

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• From Colonial to Postcolonial Irrigation Technology: Technological Romanticism and the Revival of Colonial Water Tanks in Java, Indonesia.