counternarrative

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ narrative

Noun

counternarrative (plural counternarratives)

1. A narrative that goes against another narrative.
   • 2009 June 19, Shane M., “A Different Iranian Revolution”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     To our great dismay, what we find is that in important sectors of the American press a disturbing counternarrative is emerging: That perhaps this election wasn’t a fraud after all.

   • 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 4, in Merchants of Doubt:

     One aspect of the effort to cast doubt on ozone depletion was the construction of a counternarrative that depicted ozone depletion as a natural variation that was being cynically exploited by a corrupt, self-interested, and extremist scientific community to get more money for their research.

   • 2021 July 31, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Fandos, “Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     This past week […] Republicans completed their journey through the looking-glass, spinning a new counternarrative of that deadly day. No longer content to absolve Mr. Trump, they concocted a version of events in which those accused of rioting were patriotic political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the violence.