Recontextualization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process or result of recontextualizing. countable, uncountable

    "Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization."

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"Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization."

Etymology

From re- + contextualization.

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