counter-narrative
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- noun
- /ˈkaʊntərˈnærətɪv/
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contranarrativa
- Through the use of a Black Feminist Theory lens, these authors emphasized how artists in these respective genres have provided affirmative and strong counter-narratives to societally constructed negative discourses and representations of Black motherhood.
- provide a counter-narrative
It doesn't work on its own account simply by erecting an entire counter narrative and an entire systematic way of looking at things.
- It doesn't work on its own account simply by erecting an entire counter narrative and an entire systematic way of looking at things.
Examples
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One function of CRT is to identify these influences and behaviors in the counter-narratives of faculty of color.
Academic text (2013) -
As I said, I'd like to see that counter-narrative worked out in comparable detail to this one.
Blog text (32) -
Thus, this study of material culture in a historically recorded period provides a counter-narrative to the political history of the region.
Academic text (2006) -
First, we identify counter-narratives of institutional life from faculty of color.
Academic text (2013) -
Several years after the negative representation of Black mothers that was offered in The Moynihan Report, an increasing number of songs provided a strong counter-narrative to this form of parentage.
Academic text (2016) -
Providentialists recognized the need to provide a scholarly counter-narrative to Bourne's debunking.
Academic text (2018) -
The counter-narrative posited Coggins as a dangerous man engaged in deception, arson, and perhaps even murder.
Academic text (2013) -
Yet the counter-narrative explicates the prevailing condition—there are not enough minority faculty.
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The documentary offers a counter-narrative that challenges the widely accepted version of the events.
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Her article presents a counter-narrative to the misconceptions about immigration that have circulated in the media.
Synonyms
An opinion that disagrees with another view
How Challenging
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Counter-narrative joins counter- ('against') and narrative ('a story'), the same root as narrate ('to tell'). So a counter-narrative is a story that goes against or challenges the main or official story.