postdictatorship

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ dictatorship.

Noun

postdictatorship (plural postdictatorships)

1. The government after a dictatorship has ended.
   • 1999, Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 231:

     If the function of the dictatorships was the epochal ushering of the postmodern stage of capital, the task facing literary writing in postmodern postdictatorships will necessarily differ from previous postdictatorships, in that now the imperative of mourning imposes itself in a context in which literature has been forced to abandon its privileged role in modernity—the imagination of an otherwise, the redemption of the poetic within the prosaism of daily alienated life, and the envisioning of a redemptive epiphany.

   • 2004, Sophie Body-Gendrot, “America Needs Europe”, in Alan Curtis, editor, Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: Restoring America’s Promise at Home and Abroad, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 137:

     Americans are concerned with the way one manages postdictatorships.

   • 2010, J. Andrew Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America, Palgrave Macmillan:

     Latin America serves as an especially important case study as it adds the prism of technological transfer, of the postdictatorships, and the neoliberal policies of the 1990s that have served as the backdrop to the rapid introduction of Internet technologies.

   • 2020, Karen Elizabeth Bishop, The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 207:

     Andrew C. Rajca’s recent work proposes the very timely possibility of working outside the binary of hero/victim not in art but in the political landscape of the late Southern Cone postdictatorships.