Metanarrative

Overarching narrative

In social theory, a metanarrative is an overarching narrative about smaller historical narratives, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a master idea. The term was popularized by the writing of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard in 1979. Metanarrative is considered a foundational concept of postmodernism.

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