Opposed to or rejecting traditional narrative structure; resisting conventional storytelling methods.
From anti- (against) + narrative (from Latin narrativus, meaning 'relating to telling' or 'recounting,' derived from narrare 'to tell'). This term emerged in postmodern literary criticism in the late 20th century.
Postmodern antinarrative works like Julio Cortázar's 'Hopscotch' or experimental films force readers to become active meaning-makers rather than passive consumers, revealing that our brains don't actually need a hero's journey to feel satisfied by art.
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