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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

Contributors:

By (Author) Gilles Deleuze
Contributions by Felix Guattari

ISBN:

9780816615155

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Imprint:

University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date:

31st October 1986

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Dewey:

833.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

136

Dimensions:

Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm

Description

In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafkas work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of minor literaturethe 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.

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