Counterimagination

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An imagination that contradicts or opposes another imagination. countable, uncountable

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

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

Etymology

From counter- + imagination.

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