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plural counterdiscourses
(social sciences) A way of thinking that opposes an institutionalized discourse. quotations examples
Counterdiscourses such as postcolonial and resistance literatures struggle with their hybrid nature. They generally find it necessary to appropriate the language and techniques of the center which they oppose.
1999, Greg Carey, Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John