Poststructuralist Third World theory arose as a substitute for failed nationalist ideology

Evidence

Since nationalism had been designated during this phase as the determinate source of ideological energy in the Third World by those same critics who had themselves been influenced mainly by poststructuralism, the disillusionment with the (national-bourgeois) state of the said Third World which began to set in towards the later 1980s then led those avant-garde theorists to declare that poststructuralism and deconstruction were the determinate theoretical positions for the critique of nationalism itself. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 274

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s strategic-essentialism research: shows the discourse-first/poststructuralist move replacing rather than grounding materialist critique of the postcolonial state. — connects to: Poststructuralist critique rejects nationalism wholesale instead of judging its specific historical forms — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 169; Radical theory shifted from socialist revolution to Third-Worldist nationalism as national bourgeoisies consolidated — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 272; Literary theory’s rejection of nationalism mirrors poststructuralism’s rise — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 62 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the genealogy by which ‘Colonial Discourse’ analysis succeeded discredited nationalism — the very discourse-determinism Ahmad targets.

Broader Connections

• Literary theory’s rejection of nationalism mirrors poststructuralism’s rise #corroborates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 62