This document discusses discourses and how narratives shape our understanding of the world. It defines key terms like metanarrative, marginalization, and dominant/oppositional discourses. It provides an exemplar response analyzing how June Jordan's poem and Gordon Bennett's artwork convey the power of metanarratives to oppress marginalized groups. The document explains that discourses represent certain viewpoints and compete for control over aspects of life. Dominant discourses tend to obscure alternative views, influencing how texts are read and the world is viewed.