Critique a passage
Please critique the following passage and let me know if my argument is clear enough or not
As long as the study ofliterature is organized along national lines, we cannot
decenter global literary history. Merely shifting our focus from major/core
literatures to minor/peripheral ones does not decenter anything for such
a move preserves the centrality of nation as the only kind of community
in which a literary work can become legible. This article argues against a
national teleology of literature in which we project the category of nation
back in historical time and propose to look instead at literary history in
terms of genre communities-communities that commune around a literary
genre (e.g. a novel community. ghazal community). With the help
of a nineteenth-century Urdu novel, Nazir Ahmad's Mirat ul-"Urus (IIOI)
(The Bride's Mirron), I show how a national teleology that gets imposed
retrospectively has led scholars of Urdu literature to assume that the novel
gives expression to the concerns of reforming a Muslim nation. However,
what emerges in and through Nazir Ahmad's novel is not a Muslim nation
but a novel community of the ashraf (singular sharif; literally, exalted, noble,
honorable). This novel community is organized around the economy of
sharaf (hono) and not Islam.
