Meaning of postfame | Babel Free

Definitions

1. After having been famous (but now forgotten).
2. After having become famous (and now famous).

Examples

“There were worse things than postfame obscurity, of course.”

“He wrote that the "springtime" of his life had nurtured the experience that had become the fodder for his fiction; the "summer," the realization of actual composition; the "autumn," his postfame years and subsequent collapse depicted so candidly in Big Sur.”

“It was a series of old news stories about a member of a D-list boy band who had found a postfame career running a medium-sized cult.”

“In the opening, postfame scene that frames the film, she is hyperfeminized to accentuate her body as wealthy and nonlaboring (in a job that would require shorter nails, that is.)”

“Thomas Moore explained in the 1820 preface to Lalla Rookh that, following the tremendous success of his early Irish Melodies, he was in a sort of postfame hangover and had difficulty beginning Lalla Rookh.”

“At this point, therefore, any reference to breakdancing has to distinguish between prefame and postfame versions of the dance.”

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