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The Becoming of a Minor-Literature from a Minor-Language

Ge Yue   

  1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University (Shanghai 200241, China)
  • Online:2014-01-25 Published:2014-03-11
  • About author:Ge Yue is a Ph.D. student in Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University (Shanghai 200241, China), with research focus on literary theory and aesthetics.

Abstract: Becoming-minor is regarded by Deleuze as the most efficient way of fighting against all existing forms of power. In Deleuze's sense, minor-literature that was mainly generated by minor-language was the embodiment of becoming-minor in the field of literature. This paper attempts to reframe Deleuze's thinking upon the relation between literature and politics by probing into the mechanism of minor-language forming. It can be argued that Deleuze critically approached this new relation by examining the mechanism of minor-language through the withered major-language and the blending usage of various languages with different functional and grammatical cases. From the minor-language perspective, another possibility can be found in interpreting contemporary Chinese "xungen" (seeking cultural and identity roots) literature and vernacular novels.

Key words: Deleuze, Kafka, Minor Language, Minor Literature