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Resistance and Insubordination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Hilde Lindemann Nelson
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Abstract

I introduce the notion of the counterstory: a story that contributes to the moral self-definition of its teller by undermining a dominant story, undoing it and retelling it in such a way as to invite new interpretations and conclusions. Counterstories can be told anywhere, but particularly when told within chosen communities, they permit their tellers to reenter, as full citizens, the communities of place whose goods have been only imperfectly available to its marginalized members.

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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 23 - 40
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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