Postmodernism’s dominance frames both critics and canonized Third World authors.

Evidence

For there now appears to be, in the work of the metropolitan critical avantgarde, an increasing tie between postmodernism and Third-Worldist canonizations. Thus, for example, whether we look at the literary critics who have done the most productive and influential work on this idea of a generic difference between the West and the ‘Third World’, or at the actual authors who are accorded central importance in this evolving countercanon- Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Rushdie, among otherswe find, first, that these critical positions are framed by the cultural dominance of postmodernism itself; and, second, that there is enough in the authors upon whom critical attention is so trained which is appropriable for those sorts of readings, usually with the text’s own abundant complicity. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 488

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s point that even a ‘contestatory’ Third World canon is complicit when authors supply material for poststructuralist readings. — connects to: Postmodernist critical fashion increasingly frames how Third World texts get canonized — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 212; A marketable marginalized identity lets third-world writers critique the West acceptably — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 455; Elite immigrant critics displaced the original national Third World canon — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 142 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernist critical fashion increasingly frames how Third World texts get canonized #corroborates (0.98) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 212
• A marketable marginalized identity lets third-world writers critique the West acceptably #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 455
• Global postmodernism celebrates a commodified ethnic difference that high modernism could not acknowledge #expands (0.80)
• Elite immigrant critics displaced the original national Third World canon #complicates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 142
• The Third World Literature canon marginalizes texts outside its authorized questions #qualifies (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 211