No text is necessarily determined by its country of origin

Evidence

And, if ‘all third-world texts are necessarily’ this or that, how is it that his own text escapes an exclusive location in the First World? — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 205

Related

• Non-Western literature’s exclusion from the canon is a translation problem, not literary exclusion (similarity 0.81)
• Third World Literature emerged only through the mediating archive of Western languages (similarity 0.80)
• Even marginal texts suffer whenever nation-theme questions dominate Third World reading. (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.79)
• The First World contains its own internal Third Worlds in its texts (similarity 0.79)
• A specific land serves as the central subject of this introduction (similarity 0.79)
• Literary texts carry metropolitan processes of selection and classification inscribed in their texture (similarity 0.79)
• Language creates consciousness of self as separate from the environment. (similarity 0.79)
• A totalizing theory silently excludes texts that contradict its category (similarity 0.79)
• A single intellectual text is multiply determined across origin, ideology, and place of filiation. (similarity 0.78)
• Third World Literature is a metropolitan fabrication, not a pre-existing category (similarity 0.78)