Postmodernist critical fashion increasingly frames how Third World texts get canonized

Evidence

What happens to one’s own reading, I would be curious to know, if one changes, in any appreciable degree, the questions? … For there now appears to be, in the work of the metropolitan critical avant-garde, an increasing tie between postmodernism and Third-Worldist canonizations. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 212

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: the metacritical move of asking, not ‘what does this Third World novel say about the nation?’ but ‘what happens when we change the questions’ - a reading-strategy question applicable far beyond postcolonial studies.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism’s dominance frames both critics and canonized Third World authors. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 488; Third World Literature as a field was professionalized by metropolitan universities

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