Maringal canons

Having your own canon is a sign of legitimacy, I suppose. How much more so for the marginalized?

Canonization is often the process of appropriating marginal and liminal power loci, objects, and texts. But if you're marginal, what can you do to create your own canon? And can you be said to be marginal if you have a canon? Do you become a micro-mass, or a subculture? If, as Hebdige argues, style can be a defining metaphor and tool for subculture, how much more so a canon of texts?

And what about the processes chosen to create the canon itself? I'm thinking about participatory, communal "Web 2.0" canonization and what it means. I'll have to come back to this when I'm lucid, which I'm clearly not now...