Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
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III. Period: 1960 - 2009
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Secondary Readings
Fredric
Jameson. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational
Capitalism”.
Key Terms (tags): national allegory,
economic history, multinational corporations, international systems,
ethnic conflict, capitalism, nationalization, privatization,
Supporting References:
- Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
Social Text
, No. 15 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 65-88
Published by: Duke
University Press
Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/466493
- Buchanan, Ian. "national allegory." A Dictionary of Critical Theory. : Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford Reference. 2010. Date Accessed 2 Sep. 2013
“national
allegory. A type of narrative whose essential subject is the nation
state. Because the life of a nation, large or small, exceeds the
capacity of what any novel can actually accommodate, narrative
fiction of this type uses allegory
as a means of expressing a dimension of existence greater than that
of the lives of its individual characters. National allegory tends to
be focused on the lives of ordinary people, however, rather than
heads of state or aristocracy, using their mundane daily struggles as
a means of illustrating the state of the nation. First conceived by
Fredric
*Jameson in his monograph on Wyndham Lewis,
Fables of Aggression (1979), and developed further in an
article entitled ‘Third-World Literature in the Era of
Multinational Capitalism’ (1986), national allegory is a highly
controversial concept and has been the subject of considerable
debate, particularly in Postcolonial
Studies. Jameson suggests that Sembène
Ousmane's novel Xala (1974) is a perfect illustration of a
national allegory because the predicament of its central characters
can only be fully understood from the perspective of the nation. See
also geopolitical
aesthetic.”
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