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[Dave Monroe]

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari.  Kafka:
   Towards a Minor Literature.  

In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and
Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of
Kafka's work. Instead of exploring preexisting
categories or literary genres, they propose a concept
of "minor literature"—the use of a major language that
subverts it from within. Writing as a Jew in Prague,
they contend, Kafka made German "take flight on a line
of escape" and joyfully became a stranger within it.
His work therefore serves as a model for understanding
all critical language that must operate within the
confines of the dominant language and culture.

For Deleuze and Guattari, literature—especially minor
literature—cannot be a refuge. They see such writing
as essentially political in nature, intimately
concerned with the relation between language and
power. Their analysis ultimately leads to a view of
Kafka's work as a new mode of writing-a machine of
expression-that allows us to account for the
"machines" that condition our actual relation to the
world, to the body, to desire, and to the economy of
life and death.

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/deleuze_kafka.html

And see as well ...

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jchapman/

http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/janadele.htm


		
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