Meaning of transcolonial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.
2. Between or beyond colonial boundaries.

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."”

“... best understood and interrogated on a regional, transcolonial level of generalization. This analysis is no less specific because it is based on vampire stories from Tanzania interpreted with vampire stories from Uganda […]”

“In both cases, the seeming downfall of 'England' as the hegemonic power was given as the pretext for a new transcolonial model of the Empire. Kipling and the 'imperialist' camp resorted to this model to secure maximum support from the ...”

“By this time white and white man pertained to an overt, transnational identity that was forming within and between British settler sites. At the transcolonial level, white spaces were organized and shored up outwardly through the sharing of restrictive immigration policies among (former) British colonies.”

“[…] century was held together increasingly by large transcolonial companies. These companies and corporations were often made up of partners who were socially and financially connected to one another through marriage relations and birth.”

“This existence of a transcolonial approach to the legal issues surrounding slavery needs further exploration, especially since it seems to have spread beyond the British possessions in North America: in 1804, the Vermont Supreme Court ...”

“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.”

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