Politics and Minor Literature - (Transcultural Aesthetics) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This work follows Deleuze and Guattari's account of minor literature to ask the ways in which 'minor literature' flourishes in transcultural contexts. The chapters presented here offer the first analysis of that concept in a global context.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.