The narratives are important in themselves as significant pieces of the metanarrative of suspicion in which activist politics have been embedded since the McCarthy era (with roots much earlier).
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Metanarrative
Synonyms for "metanarrative" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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17 translations across 8 languages.
Catalan
3 entries- consciència popular noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- metanarrativa noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- realitat col·lectiva noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 宏大敘事 /宏大叙事 noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
French
2 entries- grand récit noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- métarécit noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
German
2 entries- meistererzählung noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- metanarrativ noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
Italian
1 entries- metanarrazione noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
Portuguese
1 entries- metanarrativa noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
Spanish
4 entries- grandes narrativas noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- grandes relatos noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- macrorrelato noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- metanarrativa noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
Vietnamese
2 entries- siêu tự sự noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
- đại tự sự noun (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Even the richest metanarratives of finitude cannot ultimately explain themselves, for they have no way to synoptically do so: a larger metanarrative, one rooted in the metaphysical, is required.
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That is not to say that Snakewalk departs from the metanarrative of blindness completely, or even substantially, but rather that it contains much detail that is evidently informed by experiential knowledge.
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