What is a Minor Literature” from Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature « Qu est-ce qu une littérature mineure?
» / What is a Minor Literature? Deleuze and Guattari outline the three characterizing elements of a minor literature : 1) the deterritorializations of a major language through a minor literature written in the major language from a marginalized or minoritarian position; Discussing the first element of a minor literature , Deleuze and Guattari explain that it does not arise from a literature written in a minor language, or in a formerly colonized langue. Rather, a minor literature is written in a major language, or as in the case of formerly colonized countries, the colonizers langue. According to Deleuze and Guattari, the first characteristic of a minor literature in any case is that in it language is affected with a high coefficient of deterritorialization (16). 2) the thoroughly political nature of a minor literature ; The second characteristic of a minor literature , according to Deleuze and Guattari, is its political nature. Everything in them is political, they explain. The indivi
