counterdiscursive

Definitions

Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.

Examples

“All of their texts, which were written during the 1980s and 1990s, share⟳ an oppositional and counterdiscursive impulse through which they express⟳ the possibility of a community different from that offered by the dominant culture.”

“Postcolonial analyses of cultural production study⟳ counterdiscursive practices in cultures affected by the imperial enterprise, such as the legacy of subjugation and resistance of the black populations of the Americas.”

“Overcompensating for anti-fat rhetorics by emphasizing the relative health and beauty of fatness, is I guess⟳, a rather inevitable step in fighting for the rights of oppressed groups by performing counterdiscursive fat perfection.”

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