How to Use postcolonial in a Sentence

postcolonial

adjective
  • Judges who understood the nuances of a postcolonial space liked it.
    — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • The same postcolonial theorists who assign your books & videos in classes.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 1 June 2018
  • 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
  • In the postcolonial world, ethnic domination is simply not going to fly.
    — Ziad Asali, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • What if this wastage was taking place, not in postcolonial peripheries, but in the very heart of the Western financial system?
    — Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The films were popular among all Ghanaians during the postcolonial period.
    — Katie Young, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Yet Mauritius faces many of the familiar problems of a postcolonial society.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • My life and identity were shaped by postcolonial forces that brought English into my life – forces that demanded sacrifices to truly learn it.
    — Kalpana Jain, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In this postcolonial novel about truth, ambition, and identity, Gurnah follows the two men as their paths cross over several decades.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The postal subsidy helped enhance paper circulation both in the colonial and postcolonial periods.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • One president represents a new hope for the postcolonial nation, while the other would maintain the incumbent military rule.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • Nguyen continues to shape the global dialogue around art, identity and postcolonial history.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But wars and conflicts also erupted after the Soviet Union collapsed and postcolonial debt-settling spiked.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Here, war and the extractive violence of postcolonial industry sever the link between past and present, allowing for a new future to come into focus.
    — Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Husain examined themes including myth and religion, as well as rural and postcolonial society.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This book shaped my understanding and use of folklore as a space of critical fabulation and a tool to examine and relay history through a postcolonial lens.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 novel is both an epic about individual people caught up in the Biafran War as well as a commentary on the way those people conceive of postcolonial identity.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the best scenes in Clarissa are when the young friends gather around the table to debate the state of postcolonial literature and the irony of a newly democratic nation under military rule.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • Ba Khin was one of a small number of prominent Buddhist lay meditation teachers in late colonial and early postcolonial Burma.
    — Daniel M. Stuart, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026

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