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This is tied to the strength of the comparative causal analysis he makes: linguistic similarity in itself can't explain nation-phenomena b/c of counterexamples like Latin America (rival nation-states speaking same language)
So it's a parsimonious theory that can explain exceptions to "nation = ethno-linguistic similarity" while still accounting for the important phenomena that are the basis for that hypothesis
(I share your distaste for the "citations which don't substantiate wacky claims" and other weirdness of literary theory, and I'm a realist about national identity in many ways. But it's still an important argument.)
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