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Postcolonial - What does it mean?

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postcolonial

English

Alternative forms

*post-colonial

Adjective

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  • 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

    Derived terms

    * postcolonialism * postcolonialist * postcoloniality * postcolonially

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