Transcolonial
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.
"As an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, my meditations on the transcolonial logic of the British Empire were sparked by a haunting fragment of Indian statuary on display in Cameron Library: the head of a bodhisattva, presented to the university, a plaque announced, by a British Army major, who had "traded it for rifles in the Kyber Pass.""
- 2 Between or beyond colonial boundaries.
"The transcolonial frontier refers to a frontier that lay way beyond any white settlement, beyond the frontier. This type of frontier is represented by the example of the English traders who established a trading post at Port Natal in 1824, and by Coenraad de Buys, an Afrikaner who became the patriarch of a distinct mixed group which came to be known as the Griqua."
Example
More examples"As an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, my meditations on the transcolonial logic of the British Empire were sparked by a haunting fragment of Indian statuary on display in Cameron Library: the head of a bodhisattva, presented to the university, a plaque announced, by a British Army major, who had "traded it for rifles in the Kyber Pass.""
Etymology
From trans- + colonial.
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