Asian and African literature is read through Latin American literary models

Evidence

It is usually on the model of the Latin American text, in fact, that texts from Asia and Africa are customarily read, in order to obtain a homogeneous ‘Third World Literature’. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 125

It is usually on the model of the Latin American text, in fact, that texts from Asia and Africa are customarily read, in order to obtain a homogeneous ‘Third World Literature’ In other words, over the past three decades or so a vast archive of texts has accumulated, which is available to the metropolitan university to examine, explicate, categorize, classify, and judge as to its worthiness for inclusion within its curriculum and canon. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 315

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific Latin American models (magic realism? the Boom?) are being imposed on Asian and African texts, and with what distortion?
• SEED: An essay angle: how Latin America became the default template for reading all ‘Third World’ fiction in metropolitan universities.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 125; Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 315