...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) (emphasis in original) In order to elaborate on why "first-" and "third-world" literature...

...invested with a properly libidinal dynamic—necessarily project a political dimension in the form of the national allegory: the story of the private individual...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society. (1986, 69) In theory, Carpentier's novel works well within this schema; the use of titles...

...cultures represent collective struggles, Jameson argues, because in what he labels "third-world fiction," "the story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public thirdworld culture and society. "10 In this essay, I join more recent cultural critics who have begun to break down Jameson's...

...split the private experience from the public sphere as it has in developed countries. Consequently, the 'story of the private individual destiny is always an allegory of the embattled structure of the public . . . culture and society' (67). The sweeping nature of this claim drew strong...

...Lu Xun, modern China's most famous writer, to illustrate the proposition that every Third World text "is always an allegory of the embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society." 18 Jameson is not initiating a new approach so much as he is building upon a timehonored...

...emanating from countries that "have suffered colonialism and imperialism": "[T]hird- world texts . . . necessarily project a political dimension in the form...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society" (Jameson 1986, 69). Aijaz Ahmad critiques Jameson, in short objecting to the reduction of...

...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. . . [T]he telling of the individual story and the individual experience cannot but ultimately...

...Jameson's reading of Lu Xun, even though the theoretical concept of "national allegory" dictates that "the story of the private individual destiny is always...embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society" (1986, 69). Jameson's approach to "the libidinal dimension" in "Diary of a Madman" foregrounds...

...third-world texts are necessarily [...] allegorical [...] they 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."5 If, so Ahmad, this "Third World" is "coustituted by the 'singular experience of colonialism...

...destinies in a First World setting, they serve as corollaries to Fredric Jameson's thesis (1986) that "the story of the private individual destiny is always...allegory of the embattled situation of the public third- world culture and society" (69). The protagonists in this fiction make pilgrimages from distant...