Postwar

Word POSTWAR
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Postwar"

What do we mean by postwar?

Belonging to the period after a war. adjective

Alternative spelling of post-war. of or pertaining to the period after a war adjective

Belonging to the period after a war adjective

Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Postwar

  • Synonyms for postwar
  • Postwar synonyms not found!!!

The word "postwar" in example sentences

My own initial response to Gates of Eden demonstrates that it is possible to read the book as an illuminating appraisal of American fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, but turning to Dickstein's other writing on postwar fiction only confirms that ultimately his purpose seems to be to pin postwar writersdown as specimens of their time and place, at best figures in a procession of "tendencies." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pair Chambes with Ellison if you're interested in postwar intellectual history, but leave out Chambers altogether if you're teaching postwar American literature. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe. ❋ Erica Liepmann (2010)

It also makes The Subterrraneans itself an important text both in postwar American fiction and American literature as a whole. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How states organized their war efforts, and the lessons people drew from those experiences, affected how open they were to a large state role in postwar economic management and to the deepening of the welfare state. ❋ Steven E. Levingston (2010)

“The rise of the creative-writing program,” he says, “stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

It should be noted that the expulsion of the Palestinians is hardly without precedent in postwar history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas. ❋ Philip French (2010)

The lyric by Enrique Santos Discepolo, master composer of the tango, sums up the situation here just as it did in postwar Buenos Aires: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both The Angel's Game and Shadow of the Wind are translated into English by Lucia Graves (daughter of poet and I, Claudius author Robert Graves); who was raised on the island of Majorca in postwar Spain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Scholes's book popularized the term "metafiction" as a more specific term describing the tendencies in postwar American fiction that made readers think of them as "experimental": "Metafiction ... attempts to assault or transcend the laws of fiction -- an undertaking which can only be achieved from within fictional form." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nouri al-Maliki is named prime minister after Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq's first full-term postwar prime minister, is forced out after being criticised for being ineffective. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cross Reference for Postwar

  • Postwar cross reference not found!

What does postwar mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Best IOS App Reviews