countertext
countertext · countertexts
A text that opposes another, often by presenting similar events from a different…A text that opposes another, often by presenting similar events from a different perspective.
Meaning
1 sensesA text that opposes another, often by presenting similar events from a different perspective.
Alice Randall's novel "The Wind Done Gone" is a countertext to Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind".
Origin
From counter- + text.From counter- + text.
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Forms
plural: countertexts| Singular | countertext |
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Word family
1 related wordsDerivedcountertextual