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Discover LudwigThe phrase "privileged narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a perspective or story that is favored or given more importance, often in discussions about social issues or power dynamics.
Example: "In many historical accounts, the privileged narrative often overlooks the experiences of marginalized communities."
Alternatives: "dominant narrative" or "favored perspective."
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While Borges's novel-as-maze would only work if read in the correct order — implying a privileged narrative — the gamebook can be read backwards and forwards, or not at all — usually after the first go-through, one might as well skip right to the choosing part.
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Similarly privileged narratives of white heteronormative feminism were on view all year long.
One of these is privileged as the "main narrative," but each section of that narrative is followed by one or more variant versions of the same events.
"Ultimately, the book is a narrative of this privileged class," Mr. Dweck said.
It decided its most exciting asset was the narrative of a privileged white guy with an excess of power and a deficit of gratitude.
What we consider to be truth is often just a reflection of the power structure, a single narrative propounded by a privileged class that must be countered by alternative narratives.
Do you see a lot of popular narratives whose heroes are privileged, unelected engineers and investors whose previously sizable wealth has grown into immense riches and enormous power?
Unfortunately, "Inside Rikers" is marred by the misguided inclusion of Wynn's own narrative of transformation from a naïve, privileged outsider to a humble-yet-knowing social worker, a narrative that is as clichéd as it is irritating.
The portrait is a too-familiar one from the narratives of Islamist radicalization among privileged Muslim youth seeking to cope simultaneously with extremist teaching, physical and cultural dislocation, and personal struggles.
As feminist theorist and writer bell hooks argues, antebellum narratives of black brutalization often privileged black men, black patriarchy and black men's stolen right to assume the normal role of patriarch under white supremacy.
Stockett has re-created the lives of women like McLorn, but she set the material during the civil-rights movement, and she put a privileged white woman at the center of the narrative.
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