Cultural nationalism is constitutive of postcolonial theory’s theoretical stances.

Evidence

Inevitably, t~en, cultural nationalism of one kind or another continues robe the constitutive ideology of the theoretical positions from which these issues are raised. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 263

Categorization

• XREF: This is precisely Ahmad’s central indictment — that discourse-first postcolonialism is unconsciously nationalist — which the reader traces from Foucault’s race-struggle motif through Spivak’s strategic essentialism. — connects to: Culturalist postcolonial labeling is arrant idealism that levels history — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 857; Cultural nationalism remains the constitutive ideology of Third World literary theory. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 263
• DEEPTHINKING: Only a one-sentence inference but carries the chapter’s load-bearing claim; sits with it as a paradigm-level diagnosis applicable beyond postcolonial theory.

Broader Connections

• Cultural nationalism remains the constitutive ideology of Third World literary theory. #corroborates (0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 263