Definition of "postcolonial" [postcolonial]

• Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics. (adjective)

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• "Within what we call the postcolonial or the metropolitan societies, there are different, layered presents."
• "The preservation of the white settlers and their economic activities, capital, and management, which in postcolonial countries were pretty much impossible to replace, was an imperative that was beneficial both for the whites and the natives, for the simple reason that it would be difficult for the economy to grow in a healthy and sustainable manner otherwise."
• "35 Moreover, an important conceptual shiftfrom "life history" to "personal narrative" helped, by the 1980s, to move this literature beyond dead-end debates about the "truthfulness" of testimony uttered within postcolonial field encounters."