Unhistory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unhistory is a noun meaning The stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical.
Meaning
The stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical.
More Meanings
- The suppressed history of controversial events.
- Inaccurate representations of the past that are presented as history.
Example Sentences
Kutler says, "Nixon would have us make unhistory out of a sequence of events for which we have ample evidence.
Somehow, in this eerie age of unhistory, the whole meaning and purpose of life has been twisted around, warped and distorted.
Thus, settler colonialism involves a daedal arrangement of justifications and unhistories in order to deny genocide and brutality.
Hagen and Zelman note that "what we lost" is also the "unwritten sufferings of ordinary women, ordinary people" who "are doomed to become unhistory" (445).
Word Forms
- unhistories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nonhistory, unstory, nonstory, nonhistorian, nonfolklore, non-folklore.
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