postfame

English

Etymology

post- +‎ fame

Adjective

postfame (comparative more postfame, superlative most postfame)

1. After having been famous (but now forgotten).
   • 2004, Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood, page 181:

     There were worse things than postfame obscurity, of course.

   • 2007, Paul Maher, Kerouac: The Definitive Biography, page 435:

     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.

   • 2020, Daisy Bateman, Murder Goes to Market:

     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.

2. After having become famous (and now famous).
   • 2003, Daniel Boyarin, ‎Daniel Itzkovitz, ‎Ann Pellegrini, Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, page 263:

     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.)

   • 2008, Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History, page 157:

     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.

   • 2011, Sally Banes, Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism, page 138:

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