Autocolonial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Autocolonial is an adjective meaning Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
Meaning
Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
More Meanings
- (botany) Pertaining to an autocolony.
Example Sentences
It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse.
In part, Siam avoided external rule by proffering and employing autocolonial practices to demonstrate its siwilai (civilized) status (Winichakul 1994, 2000, 2010).
Its modern conception as a boundary separating the cultivated from the wild is a palimpsest; below this persists the remaindered reality of a porous zone that challenges colonial or autocolonial demarcation.
Psychologically, he symbolizes the problem of adolescence that strives to express and define itself in an adult world that discourages originality; politically, he refuses to be appropriated by dominant autocolonial discourse […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colonialistic, paracolonial, cybercolonial, colonial, neocolonialistic, transcolonial.
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