Third-world literature reaches metropolitan readers through metropolitan-controlled grids

Evidence

Inclusion of some writers from the ‘Third World’ in our existing curricula would surely be a gain, but a relatively less significant one, especially if it is done in an eclectic sort of way and without negotiating the consequences of the fact that ‘literature’ from other zones of the ‘Third World’- African, say, or Arab or Caribbeancomes to us not directly or autOnomously bur through grids of accumulation, interpretation and relocation which are governed from the metropolitan countries. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 190

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the discourse-determinist, grid-governed model of canonization Ahmad is resisting — core to assessing what is materially evasive.
• XREF: connects to: World literature is a material category of metropolitan accumulation, not a universal condition — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 78; Non-Western literature reaches readers mediated by metropolitan selection — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 74; Metropolitan institutions assemble and control most knowledge produced about the Third World (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Non-Western literature reaches readers mediated by metropolitan selection #corroborates (0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 74
• Metropolitan institutions assemble and control most knowledge produced about the Third World #expands (0.85)
• Global publishing expansion keeps power concentrated in Western metropolitan centers #corroborates (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 57
• World literature trades unequally between a dominant center and periphery #expands (0.80)