...invested with a properly libidinal dynamic, necessarily project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of the private individual...always an allegory of the embattled situation of the third-world culture and society.2^ With Jameson, as has been noted, attempting "to cash in on the strongest...

...productions" can be read as national allegories because they have something in common, namely, that "the story of the private individual destiny is always...allegory of the embattled situation of the public third world culture and society."6 The most recent entry in the ongoing debate is Madhava Prasad's...

...libidinal dynamic "project a political dimension in the form of national allegory: the story of me private individual destiny is always an allegory of...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...

...apparently private or 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."5 Brazilian intellectuals, for their part, had been working with something like the concept...

...are national allegories premised on entirely different relations between the public and the private: The story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public thirdworld culture and society" (69). Jameson's formulation has the advantage of expanding the range of oppositional positions...

...Jameson argues that "third world texts . . . 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."19 Third World texts, then— and by extension those who produce them...

...demonstrate that all Third World writing necessarily assumes the form of national allegories: "the story ot the private individual destiny is always an allegory...embattled situation of the public thirdworld culture and society" (1986, 71). He takes as his point of departure the pivotal stage that Lukacs alluded to in...

...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" (TWL, p. 69). What is to be noted is that Jameson is not simply saying that all texts are...

...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. (Jameson 1986: 69; emphasis in the original) Jameson suggests that it is in part the very...

...Jameson. 1986. p 67 First World cultural productions. Jameson emphasises that in Third World texts "the story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society."7 Jameson explains that this "very different ratio of the political to the personal" makes...