Even marginal texts suffer whenever nation-theme questions dominate Third World reading.

Evidence

What is disconcerting, nevertheless, is that a whole range of texts which do not ask those particular questions in any foregrounded manner would then have to be excluded from or pushed to the margins of this emerging counter-canon. Worse still, a whole range of other kinds of questioningspertaining to other sorts of literary influences and experiential locations, the political affiliations of the author, representations of classes and genders within the text, and myriad such issueswould then have to be subordinated to the primacy of the authorized questions·: about ‘nation’, and so on. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 486

Categorization

• XREF: Holds the class-questions priority the reader wants to recover; Ahmad subordinates nation to class, gender, affiliation. — connects to: ‘Third World Literature’ functions as a counter-canon that limits admissible questions. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 485; The Third World Literature canon marginalizes texts outside its authorized questions — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 211; Local oral literatures resist absorption into any unified Third World Literature category — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 318

Broader Connections

• The Third World Literature canon marginalizes texts outside its authorized questions #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 211
• Local oral literatures resist absorption into any unified Third World Literature category #corroborates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 318