Meaning of counterimagination | Babel Free

Definitions

An imagination that contradicts or opposes another imagination.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“This preoccupation, it appears, was to challenge⟳ official constructions of blackness and to create⟳ oppositional or counterimaginations of black identity.”

“In order⟳ to forge networks with these strong women, and potentially make⟳ globalized links with them, at both a material and imagined level, first they must be taken out of the limited categories Western imagination (and Western academic disciplines) have⟳ cast⟳ them into, by a process⟳ of counterimagination.”

“In the midst of their flirtation, the reader senses counterimaginations at work⟳: the young men sing⟳ their evangelical hymns, “I've Got a Friend in Jesus” and “The Old Rugged Cross,” in response to which the young women literally chant the medieval Latin hymn “Tantum Ergo,” written by Aquinas.”

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