post-structuralistadj.n.

1967 J. Van Velsen in A. L. Epstein Craft of Social Anthropol. i. 140 I have contrasted the aims and methods of anthropologists writing in the structuralist tradition with the types of problem in which many anthropologists of a younger, post-structuralist, ‘generation’ have become familiar.

1988 Nation (N.Y.) 9 Jan. 23/2 He goes beyond the useful post-structuralist point that facts about the past are structured like texts.

1993 Sci.-fiction Stud. Nov. 450 In providing a nonlinear, non-hierarchical, and nonpatriarchal reading experience hypertext is inherently deconstructive and delivers almost all of the desiderata of poststructuralist literary theory.

2003 New Yorker 14 July 88/2 Likewise, in the many pop-music books now in circulation, post-structuralist, post-Marxist, post-colonialist, and post-grammatical buzzwords crop up on page after page.

1974 Diacritics 4 4/2 Some semioticians and fellow-travelers have come to be known as post-structuralists, deconstructionists, or semanalysts.

1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) Introd. 30 Though numerous post-structuralists are feminists.., feminist criticism is not post-structuralist, especially if post-structuralism is defined by its opposition to structuralism.

1993 N. Tredell Crit. Decade x. 102 Even the sternest poststructuralist, ready to repress reference the moment it starts to poke through the skeins of signification, must have wondered..whether Fish is the model for Morris Zapp in David Lodge's novels.

2003 J. Weyland Answer is Never viii. 103 Poststructuralists could have a field day with the ironies of Skateboard's origins at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain.