...recent postcolonial fiction must be read primarily in political and social terms, that "the story of a private individual destiny is always an allegory of...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society."14 While Jameson's argument seems to me too broadly stated, both geographically and generically,...

...tropes," or "representative of critical activity perse" (Fineman 1981:27). Jameson has argued that "the story of the private individual destiny is always...allegory of the embattled situation of the public... culture and society" (1986:69). In this manner allegories simultaneously voice both subjective and...

...invested with a properly libidinal dynamic — necessarily project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of the private individual...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society. Need I add that it is precisely this very different ratio of the political to the personal...

...third-world fictions can all be reduced to the same fundamental narrative strategy: as Jameson states it, "the story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society" (italics removed; 69). Ultimately, Jameson argues that third-world commitment to nationalist...

...nationalities : "All third-world texts," claims Jameson, "are to be read ... as national allegories. . . . The story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society."15 Jameson's intuitive apprehension of the blurred lines of cultural demarcation between the...

...layer of the Chinese box—the political context. As Fredric Jameson has observed, Third World texts "necessarily project a political dimension in the form of a national allegory" (1986, 69). The politics of the time not only contributes directly to Miss Sasagawara's distress but...

...invested with a properly libidinal dynamic, necessarily project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of the private individual...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society" (69). Jameson's article has been accused of unwittingly proposing a paternalistic, that is,...

...invested with an apparently private or libidinal dynamic "project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of the private individual...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society."18 We do not endorse Jameson's somewhat hasty totalization of all Third World texts - it is...

...modernist novel.24 Thus, Jameson argues, all third-world texts have to be read as national allegories: "The story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public thirdworld culture and society."25 Moreover, these texts use satire to criticize a politically and economically corrupt present...

...invested with a properly libidinal dynamic, necessarily project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of the private individual...allegory of the embattled situation of the public Third World culture and society.1 Jameson's theory, to be exact, is based on his observation of "a...