Asian-origin critics, not Said, cemented immigrant-centered literary Third-Worldism
Evidence
It was at this point that the singular ascendancy of Salman Rushdie began, and it is notable that apart from Edward Said himself, the critics who have played the key role in redefining literary Third-Worldism in relation mainly to the immigrant, and have also cemented the relationship between this immigrant phenomenon and postmodern ways of reading that archive, have usually been of Asian origin. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 358
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Orientalism and Third World Literature are complementary homogenizing gestures served by ethnic intellectuals — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 824; Elite immigrant critics displaced the original national Third World canon — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 142; A marketable marginalized identity lets third-world writers critique the West acceptably — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 455 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Elite immigrant critics displaced the original national Third World canon
#corroborates(0.92) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 142 - The Third World Literature category emerged from postwar metropolitan migration, not from textual accumulation
#corroborates(0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 320 - A marketable marginalized identity lets third-world writers critique the West acceptably
#expands(0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 455 - Poststructuralist debunking of nationalism succeeded Third-Worldist nationalism as the dominant academic counter-canon
#responds-to(0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 61