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national allegory: a standalone construct

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Literary theory

a contested claim by Jameson that private stories in postcolonial fiction should be read as allegories of the nation's public situation.

In literary theory, national allegory refers to a contested claim by Jameson that private stories in postcolonial fiction should be read as allegories of the nation's public situation. This meaning comes from Jameson (1986) in Social Text.[1]

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References

Jameson, F. (1986). Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism. Social Text, 65. https://doi.org/10.2307/466493

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