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词汇 postcolonialism
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Definition of postcolonialism in English:

postcolonialism

nounˌpəʊstkəˈləʊnɪəlɪz(ə)mˌpōstkəˈlōnēəlizəm
mass noun
  • 1The political or cultural condition of a former colony.

    the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism in Africa
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am mindful that the 1930s corner boys of the Great Depression fought and won the Second World War and the teddy boys of the 1940s and '50s fought the wars of post-colonialism with great distinction.
    • The now "liberated" countries were allowed to enter into their own postcolonialism.
    • Post-colonialism and immigration are themes from both countries' histories.
    • I must make it clear that postcolonialism has no fixed starting date.
    • That history cannot be divorced from the context of colonialism, post-colonialism, and the changing nature of contemporary capitalism.
    • The history of national anthems parallels that of nationalism, beginning with the Enlightenment in the 18th century, and ending with post-colonialism from the mid-20th century to the present.
    • Postcolonialism did not dawn when the last bugle of the empire had been sounded, or on the morning after India got its independence, or when Ghana gained a new national airline.
    • In the forty-five years following independence, Irish women faced more pressures to avoid assimilation precisely because 'their family role and responsibilities' were affected by post-colonialism.
    • For all involved, the racism, poverty, and social injustice that we experienced gave us a new perspective on the reality of colonialism, postcolonialism, and globalism.
    • In an era of post-colonialism, there are reasons why this portrait is a significant choice for display.
    1. 1.1 A theoretical approach in various disciplines that is concerned with the lasting impact of colonization in former colonies.
      postcolonialism continues to unite historians and literary scholars
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The different colonial histories of London and Paris, similarly, have transformed them into vastly different sites for world music, all the more as post-colonialism gives way to postmodernism and still other processes of global cultural transition.
      • Because the book's community is defined implicitly by the text as an internal colony, theories of postcolonialism serve to highlight colonial structures embedded in the text.
      • To my great disappointment, I have not followed the new critical theories such as post-colonialism.
      • Three women huddle together with reference books on their laps and discuss post-colonialism, aesthetics, and ideology.
      • He attends to issues of colonialism and post-colonialism throughout his book.
      • Bodies of critical theory from postmodernism to post-colonialism are enriching our understanding of children and childhood.
      • These theories are not exhaustive, as demonstrated in the literature relating to post-colonialism theory.
      • This example reorients our understanding of the cosmopolitan breadth of modernism, the cross-cultural complexity of postcolonialism, and the growing globalization of twentieth-century literature written in English.
      • The discourses of gender, religion, and post-colonialism inform his use of the literatures, both Irish language and Anglo-Irish, from that period.
      • Postcolonialism as a subject was cooked up in the corridors of English departments worldwide, and if you look at most postcolonial reading lists for university use, you will find that the vast majority of books listed were written in English.

Derivatives

  • postcolonialist

  • noun & adjective
    • The policy has had some notable successes in the post-colonialist era.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He argues from a 'postcolonialist' standpoint and sets out to show the connections between the famous, published works and Charlotte Bronte's 'many neglected writings'.
      • Even if Fletcher's play is a romantic island fling that offers muted criticisms of the western ethos, Doran's production intelligently views it through post-colonialist eyes.
      • Their politics was informed by postcolonialist and Marxist agendas of nationalism.
      • She been embraced, particularly by feminist and postcolonialist scholars and film critics, for the 'decolonising' and feminist strategies at work in her films.
      • She has by turns been considered an essentialist, an exemplar of postmodern hybridity, a victim of patriarchy, a postcolonialist and a pioneer of postminimal art strategies.

Definition of postcolonialism in US English:

postcolonialism

nounˌpōstkəˈlōnēəlizəm
  • 1The political or cultural condition of a former colony.

    the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism in Africa
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In an era of post-colonialism, there are reasons why this portrait is a significant choice for display.
    • Post-colonialism and immigration are themes from both countries' histories.
    • That history cannot be divorced from the context of colonialism, post-colonialism, and the changing nature of contemporary capitalism.
    • For all involved, the racism, poverty, and social injustice that we experienced gave us a new perspective on the reality of colonialism, postcolonialism, and globalism.
    • I am mindful that the 1930s corner boys of the Great Depression fought and won the Second World War and the teddy boys of the 1940s and '50s fought the wars of post-colonialism with great distinction.
    • The history of national anthems parallels that of nationalism, beginning with the Enlightenment in the 18th century, and ending with post-colonialism from the mid-20th century to the present.
    • In the forty-five years following independence, Irish women faced more pressures to avoid assimilation precisely because 'their family role and responsibilities' were affected by post-colonialism.
    • Postcolonialism did not dawn when the last bugle of the empire had been sounded, or on the morning after India got its independence, or when Ghana gained a new national airline.
    • I must make it clear that postcolonialism has no fixed starting date.
    • The now "liberated" countries were allowed to enter into their own postcolonialism.
    1. 1.1 A theoretical approach in various disciplines that is concerned with the lasting impact of colonization in former colonies.
      postcolonialism continues to unite historians and literary scholars
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The discourses of gender, religion, and post-colonialism inform his use of the literatures, both Irish language and Anglo-Irish, from that period.
      • Because the book's community is defined implicitly by the text as an internal colony, theories of postcolonialism serve to highlight colonial structures embedded in the text.
      • These theories are not exhaustive, as demonstrated in the literature relating to post-colonialism theory.
      • Three women huddle together with reference books on their laps and discuss post-colonialism, aesthetics, and ideology.
      • Bodies of critical theory from postmodernism to post-colonialism are enriching our understanding of children and childhood.
      • To my great disappointment, I have not followed the new critical theories such as post-colonialism.
      • This example reorients our understanding of the cosmopolitan breadth of modernism, the cross-cultural complexity of postcolonialism, and the growing globalization of twentieth-century literature written in English.
      • He attends to issues of colonialism and post-colonialism throughout his book.
      • Postcolonialism as a subject was cooked up in the corridors of English departments worldwide, and if you look at most postcolonial reading lists for university use, you will find that the vast majority of books listed were written in English.
      • The different colonial histories of London and Paris, similarly, have transformed them into vastly different sites for world music, all the more as post-colonialism gives way to postmodernism and still other processes of global cultural transition.
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