Culture need not align with language and state boundaries

Evidence

A literature exists as a theoretical object to the extent that its productions can be examined in relation to their objective determinations by the development of the culture as a whole, so that per.iodization comes to rest on shifts more fundamental than mere breaks in chronology and is able to account for the dominance of the major generic forms, their uneven developments in terms of period and region, as well as the material conditions for the subordination of other generic forms in the course of historical development. The possibility of that kind of objective determination in the process of the material development of a culture can certainly exist across languages and state boundaries. Culture and literature, in other words, are not necessarily coterminous with linguistic formation and state boundary, especially in histOrical epochs preceding the emergence of the bourgeois nation-state and, in countries like India, even after the emergence of such a state; the rise of pr~nt capitalism is a variable but by no means an invariable determinant. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1089

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Culture in Relation divides and specifies without claiming primordial status — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 814; Literature and culture are not coterminous with language and state boundaries — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 487; Civilizations are cultural not political and rarely match state boundaries. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 118 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Literature and culture are not coterminous with language and state boundaries #corroborates (0.98) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 487
• Civilizations are cultural not political and rarely match state boundaries. #expands (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 118
• Boundaries matter for social life but need not align with state or nation #exemplifies (0.72)