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autocolonial

adj

Etymology

From auto- + colonial.

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻
  2. derived from colōnia
  3. inherited from colane
  4. suffixed as colonial — “colony + -al”
  5. prefixed as autocolonial — “auto + colonial”

Definitions

  1. Involving only the culture of a colonizing force

    Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.

    • It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse.
    • 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 […]
    • 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.

  2. Pertaining to an autocolony.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA