Discussion
Frederic Jameson's view that third world texts are necessarily national allegories has been critiqued by Aijaz Ahmad primarily by which of the following arguments ?
Answer: A
Ahmad's main argument was the non-viability of a homogenous notion of the 'Third World'.
In 'Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory' (1987), reprinted in In Theory (1992), Aijaz Ahmad replied to Fredric Jameson's essay on third-world literature. He argued that there is no single 'Third World' with one kind of experience and one kind of literature; the countries grouped under the label differ hugely in history, class and language, so no rule about all their texts can hold.
Ahmad did not claim that allegory is alien to these literatures, that nationalism is purely Western, or that their texts are religious or melodramatic. His case was against the category itself.
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