Within what we call the postcolonial or the metropolitan societies, there are different, layered presents. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
It’s not every day you can call a postcolonial novel a ‘feel-good’ book. From Wordnik.com. [The New Moon's Arms] Reference
What's special about April? she's kinda cute .. oh you mean the month? er .. not much:) lilacs are part of the whole "postcolonial" thing, but maybe less than lavender. From Wordnik.com. [Bits of Burgess] Reference
The postcolonial era has not brought all envisaged results. From Wordnik.com. [REPORT OF THE 4th NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS WOMEN'S LEAGUE] Reference
A significant new postcolonial writer had pulled up a chair. From Wordnik.com. [Bye-Bye to Brick Lane- Monica Ali Changes Tack] Reference
A certain discomfort with Chan may extend into the postcolonial era. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong's Canary] Reference
Zimbabwe and Darfur and postcolonial tensions deepened over free trade deals. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The presentation is on postcolonial literary theory. .and now i don't know what to say. From Wordnik.com. [fragile-liar Diary Entry] Reference
But France has considered Rwanda part of its treasured postcolonial sphere of influence. From Wordnik.com. [An American 'Empire'?] Reference
NATO is now on the forefront of the learning curve for addressing postcolonial border issues. From Wordnik.com. [Let NATO Settle the Border Wars] Reference
What is taking place there is nothing less than the first general war in postcolonial Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Making The Same Mistakes] Reference
Chissano brokered a lasting peace for Mozambique's postcolonial civil war and oversaw the East. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"" A Way in the World '' is part of the postcolonial epic he has undertaken as his life's work. From Wordnik.com. [The Writer's Workshop] Reference
You were supposed to dress like your tutorial (mine are John Donne and postcolonial literature). From Wordnik.com. [-] Reference
Among scholars there exist explanations horribly freighted with the angst of postcolonial studies. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Babar and Kin] Reference
As a leader, Batista was a classic strongman, an all-too-familiar postcolonial Latin American type. From Wordnik.com. ['Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba… and Then Lost It to the Revolution'] Reference
Mr. Suharto's death likely marks the end of a postcolonial era of strongman rule in developing Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Suharto Leaves a Mixed Record] Reference
SAID, 67Said was a literary and cultural critic whose book "Orientalism" ignited postcolonial studies. From Wordnik.com. [Transition] Reference
Mr. Schuman compares Japan's postwar economic strategy to Alexander Hamilton's in postcolonial America. From Wordnik.com. [The Rising in the East] Reference
Eyadema took power in 1967, four years after abetting one of sub-Saharan Africa's first postcolonial coups. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A victory for "Mr. Pip" would satisfy the penchant so often displayed by Booker juries for postcolonial novels. From Wordnik.com. [Who'll Win the Booker?] Reference
Nominally, the current art exhibition in Kassel is merely the last platform in Enwezor's postcolonial road show. From Wordnik.com. [A County Fair For Intellectuals] Reference
But the schools have been caught up in Hong Kong's struggle with its new postcolonial identity as a Chinese city. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Think] Reference
In the decades since Lee's praise, Sri Lanka has failed miserably to live up to its glowing postcolonial promise. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure Island] Reference
These governments still admire him as his country's first postcolonial leader, but have started to lose patience. From Wordnik.com. [Mugabe Vows to Hold Power] Reference
He said that nearly 50 years of postcolonial development policies had failed to deliver and, instead, had led to more misery. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It's a spot-on diagnosis of postcolonial Africa's political cancer that the country he presumes to lead has, so far, been spared. From Wordnik.com. [After Mandela] Reference
If there is a single lesson to be drawn from Africa's postcolonial history, it is that accountable government is good government. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of South Africa] Reference
There is no clear distinction between the summertime desires of colonial upper classes and those of postcolonial brown-skinned elites. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills are Slowly Dying] Reference
His interests were postcolonial and working class (mining!) literature, mostly from his experience around the copper mines of Montana. From Wordnik.com. [Intro to Eng Grad] Reference
In Africa, the fear of tribal factionalism gave postcolonial rulers a good reason-or at least a good excuse-for shying away from democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Limits Of Democracy] Reference
He brokered a lasting peace after Mozambique's postcolonial civil war and oversaw the African nation's transition from Marxism to a free market economy. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
From Stubbs Road to Victoria Peak, unlike in South Africa or India, the names of streets and buildings haven't been altered in a postcolonial fit of pique. From Wordnik.com. [Britannia Still Rules] Reference
In this postcolonial era, it's simply not possible for a "white" European army to invade a Third World country and make enduring friendships with the locals. From Wordnik.com. [Some politicians need to zip it up and get back to the people's business] Reference
Africa, is in many ways a symbol of the continent's postcolonial struggle, and its hopes that legitimate governments will at last act on their peoples 'behalf. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And as innumerable postcolonial novels emphasize, we may be shunned by our friends and family if we pursue a "forbidden" love outside our community or ethnic group. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Solitude] Reference
Nationalist ideology arose from a complex set of interactions in British India, producing a number of side effects that still loom large in postcolonial South Asia. From Wordnik.com. [G. South and Southeast Asia, 1914-1945] Reference
As president, Chissano brokered a lasting peace for Mozambique's postcolonial civil war and oversaw the East African nation's transition from Marxism to a free market economy. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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