Cultural nationalism assumes speaking from one’s own tradition is anti-imperialist resistance

Evidence

There appears to be, at the very least, a widespread implication in the ideology of cultural nationalism, as it surfaces in literary theory, that each ‘nation’ of the ‘Third World’ has a ‘culture’ and a ‘tradition’, and that to speak from within that culture and that tradition is itself an act of anti-imperialist resistance. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 19

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the implicit core claim of cultural nationalism in literary theory.
• XREF: connects to: Political universals like nation and state resist reduction to their parts — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 731; Cultural nationalism can smuggle in obscurantism merely by inverting the traditionmodernity binary — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 49; Cultural nationalism remains the constitutive ideology of Third World literary theory. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 263 (+1 more)

Related

• Cultural nationalism remains the constitutive ideology of Third World literary theory. (similarity 0.89)
• Cultural nationalism can smuggle in obscurantism merely by inverting the traditionmodernity binary (similarity 0.87)
• Cultural nationalism is constitutive of postcolonial theory’s theoretical stances. (similarity 0.87)
• Said frames anti-imperial resistance chiefly as cultural discourse and identity (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural theory requires a materialist theory of imperial history (similarity 0.82)
• Third World literary theory effaces Marxism-rooted radical cultural heritage (similarity 0.81)
• Claims of Third World national allegory import Romantic primitivism and Christian metaphysics onto nationalism (similarity 0.81)
• Only socialist-articulated Third World nationalisms resisted US cultural pressure; bourgeois ones embrace postmodernism. (similarity 0.81)
• Third World literary theory’s rise marked retreat from activist anti-imperialism (similarity 0.80)
• Literary theory’s rejection of nationalism mirrors poststructuralism’s rise (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism lacks fixed essence; its value depends on who wields it (similarity 0.80)
• Third World nationalisms resist US culture only when joined to socialism (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.78)
• Cultural nationalism collapses into inverse racism because culture is singularized far from the economy (similarity 0.78)
• Indigenous culture cannot be a unified site of anti-imperialist resistance (similarity 0.78)