Overview

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.

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Author:   Osman Nemli ,  Mukasa Mubirumusoke
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9789004733268

ISBN 10:   9004733264
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: a Transcultural Aesthetics of Minor Literature  Mukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli 1 Writing the Percept: Minor Literature and Spinoza  Eric Aldieri 2 Minor Literatures and the Politics of Difficult Pasts  Cilliers van den Berg 3 Kafkaesque Portraits in Israeli-Palestinian Literature  Ofra Amihay 4 Aesthetics of Diaspora: Pseudo-Translation in Ameen Rihani  Amany Dahab 5 Zong!’s Untelling: Minor Literature and Risk  Mukasa Mubirumusoke 6 Anzaldúa’s Revolutionary Self-Writing  Katherine Davies 7 Minor Poetry: the—Scapes of Nâzım Hikmet  Osman Nemli 8 Missing People: Kim Sa-ryang and the Geist of Heinrich Heine  Alexandra Yan Conclusion  Mukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli Index

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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.

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