An aggregation of texts requires binding ideology to become a counter-canon.
Evidence
In short, there has been a very considerable aggregation of texts and individuals, but mere aggregation of texts and individuals does nor give rise to the construction of a counter-canon. For the latter to arise, there has to be the cement of a powerful ideology, however incoherent and loosely defined. This cement eventually came to metropolitan literary theory in the shape of the Three Worlds Theoryespecially after the later 1960s, in the global aftermath. of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and more so after the adoption of a certain brand of Maoism by some influential sections of the Parisian avant-garde, from Julia Kristeva to Jean-Luc Godard. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 360
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies what distinguishes a mere archive/corpus from a genuine counter-canon — the presence of an organizing ideology as ideological cement.
- XREF: connects to: ‘Third World Literature’ functions as a counter-canon that limits admissible questions. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 485; A counter-canon arises only from an ideological cement, not aggregation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 143; Ideologies do not spread spontaneously but require organized struggle and politics. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 126 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- A counter-canon arises only from an ideological cement, not aggregation
#corroborates(0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 143 - Ideologies do not spread spontaneously but require organized struggle and politics.
#expands(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 126 - Ideology must be conceived as a terrain of struggle, not just functional cement
#contradicts(0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201 - Ideology ends by being flattened into inert material signifiers in media.
#complicates(0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 360 - Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out.
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