No cultural form can be permanently classified by class origin.
Evidence
Almost every fixed inventory will betray us. Is the novel a “bourgeois” form? The answer can only be historically provisional: when? which novels? for whom? under what conditions? — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1013
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Coexisting cultures cannot be ranked by any single historical clock. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 822