Metropolitan postmodern critique delegitimizes acknowledging exile’s pain

Evidence

But this too fits, because the current metropolitan milieu, with its debunking of any ‘myths of origin’ and ‘metaphysics of presence’, does not really authorize any sustained acknowledgement of such pains. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 231

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A poet’s deepest pains can be radically severed from public and political experience — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 216; Postmodern celebration of exilic multiplicity suppresses acknowledgment of exile’s pains; Postmodernism transforms the pain of unbelonging into a celebrated utopia — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 622 (+1 more)

Related

• Postmodern valorization of exile as productivity masks the genuine pains of dislocation (similarity 0.91)
• Postmodern celebration of exilic multiplicity suppresses acknowledgment of exile’s pains (similarity 0.89)
• Postmodernism transforms the pain of unbelonging into a celebrated utopia (similarity 0.83)
• A poet’s deepest pains can be radically severed from public and political experience (similarity 0.79)