recontextualization

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ contextualization.

Noun

recontextualization (countable and uncountable, plural recontextualizations)

1. The process or result of recontextualizing.
   • 2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in The New York Times Book Review‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 September 2025:

     Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization.