Postconquest
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Postconquest is an adjective meaning After a conquest.
Meaning
After a conquest.
Example Sentences
One might describe what happens between Columbus's first letter and the postconquest narratives of Francisco López de Gómara or Bernal Díaz del Castillo as the European imposition of meanings onto American society — rendering allegorical what was encountered as autoreflexive — and the consequent loss of the indigenous perspectives that might challenge that construction of the New World.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preconquest, preconquered, postconvention, preconquestal, preconquestual, postbattle.
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