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Politics and Minor Literature
Transcultural Interventions in Deleuze and Guattariâs Account of Minor Literature
Series: - Transcultural Aesthetics, Volume: 6
Politics and Minor Literature offers the first global and transcultural critical intervention of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of 'minor literature'. Taking their study on Kafka as the point of departure, the authors in this collected volume travel historically, geographically, conceptually, and linguistically to examine the ways in which 'minor literature' flourishes as a nomadic concept since the publication of Deleuze and Guattari's work. The contributions in this volume extend Deleuze and Guattari's analysis to authors beyond Kafka in multilingual and translingual contexts, to the work of poetry, to historically-informed works taking place on the border of territories, and to examinations of distant and disparate ways of imagining collectivity. Each contribution offers a way of imagining how 'minor literature' appears and acts in the world today.
Mukasa Mubirumusoke is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Black Hospitality: A Theoretical Framework for Black Ethical Life.
Osman Nemli is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. His work focuses on Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the History of Philosophy. He is currently working on a book focusing on critiques of political economy in conversation and contestation with traditional Marxist critiques.
Osman Nemli is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. His work focuses on Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the History of Philosophy. He is currently working on a book focusing on critiques of political economy in conversation and contestation with traditional Marxist critiques.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: a Transcultural Aesthetics of Minor Literature
âMukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli
1 Writing the Percept: Minor Literature and Spinoza
âEric Aldieri
2 Minor Literatures and the Politics of Difficult Pasts
âCilliers van den Berg
3 Kafkaesque Portraits in Israeli-Palestinian Literature
âOfra Amihay
4 Aesthetics of Diaspora: Pseudo-Translation in Ameen Rihani
âAmany Dahab
5 Zong!âs Untelling: Minor Literature and Risk
âMukasa Mubirumusoke
6 Anzaldúaâs Revolutionary Self-Writing
âKatherine Davies
7 Minor Poetry: theâScapes of Nâzım Hikmet
âOsman Nemli
8 Missing People: Kim Sa-ryang and the Geist of Heinrich Heine
âAlexandra Yan
Conclusion
âMukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: a Transcultural Aesthetics of Minor Literature
âMukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli
1 Writing the Percept: Minor Literature and Spinoza
âEric Aldieri
2 Minor Literatures and the Politics of Difficult Pasts
âCilliers van den Berg
3 Kafkaesque Portraits in Israeli-Palestinian Literature
âOfra Amihay
4 Aesthetics of Diaspora: Pseudo-Translation in Ameen Rihani
âAmany Dahab
5 Zong!âs Untelling: Minor Literature and Risk
âMukasa Mubirumusoke
6 Anzaldúaâs Revolutionary Self-Writing
âKatherine Davies
7 Minor Poetry: theâScapes of Nâzım Hikmet
âOsman Nemli
8 Missing People: Kim Sa-ryang and the Geist of Heinrich Heine
âAlexandra Yan
Conclusion
âMukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli
Index
Our target readership are scholars and students interested in continental philosophy and international literature. This book should be available for academic institutes, libraries, specialists, and graduate students.