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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"minor literature"”.
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
<p><em>Migritude: Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization </em>examines contemporary postcolonial narratives of migration written by women of color writing in English and in Italian under the rubric of “migritude.” Migritude literature describes the work of a disparate yet …
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Aesthetics, poetics, and cognition: a new minor literature by autists and modernists
… are still characterized in terms of lack—when literature by autists is analyzed at all. They are often treated as incoherent collections of juxtaposed fragments, which depict isolated protagonists struggling to unify their experience. This perspective is reminiscent of Uta Frith’s theory of …
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Tracing the line : a Deleuzian reading of Irvine Welsh's Marabou stork nightmares
… Welsh's work as what Deleuze terms a "minor literature". I argue, however, that it is largely the novel's visual nature (its acrobatic typography) that both establishes it as a minor literature and demands its exploration through Deleuze's text on painting rather than literature. …
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ʼn Skisoanalitiese studie van Willem Anker en Samsa-masjien (2015)
… the central reference in Deleuze and Guattari’s minor theory. In this theory they describe Kafka as minor author and his literary works as minor literature. Taking into account the intertextual conversations between Samsa-masjien and some of Kafka’s works and following Deleuze and Guattari’s …
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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
… I am concerned with what I term ""minor rhetorics,"" following Deleuze and Guattari's work on ""minor literature."" ""Minor rhetorics"" and the anomalous practices associated with them are never accounted for in recent molar histories of feminism, even though they exerted …
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In danger of jammed minds: A deconstructive discourse analysis of the criteria for early onset schizophrenia and imagination in children's literature
… alongside those found in popular children’s literature, specifically, Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, Bridge to Terabithia, and A Wrinkle in Time. Once uncovered, the underlying power discourses were then exposed. This research will then employ a minor reading as provided by Deleuze …
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
This project identifies three minor authors in three historical periods, applying deconstructive and queer theory to their writings and to their biographies. The resulting analysis traces gothic effects through other, more familiar texts and figures in order to bring about re-readings that disrupt …
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Putting Cymru on the Map: Internationalising Children’s Publishing from Wales
… sociology of translation, supplemented by minor literature theory, the study employs a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative analysis of publishing output and qualitative data from 46 stakeholder interviews. Eight case studies of children’s and YA titles published between 2018 and …
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Moving Rhizomatically: Deleuze's Child in 21st Century American Literature and Film
… due to these artists’ innovative approach to a minor literature that promotes the notion of a machinic self and questions the dominant modes of Western culture’s literature for, around, and of children.
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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
… critical paradigms, allowing the revaluation of literature, film and other fields. Within specific case studies, various aspects of Wellsian texts are used to exemplify a number Deleuzian concepts; for example, ‘Becoming-Animal’ in The Island of Doctor Moreau, the ‘Body Without Organs’ in The War …
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Scribbling Girls, Becoming Writers: A Speculative Mapping of Girl Writer Characters in Classic and Contemporary Adolescent Fiction
… drawing on Deleuze- Guattarian concepts of art, literature, and nomadism, and by considering questions of embodiment through strands of materialist thought predicated upon becoming, my reading method imagines the girl writer as a nomadic subject whose complex writing processes can be captured if …
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Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
… Aragon at the border with Catalonia. Academic literature emphasises the Pact of Forgetting (1975) and Law of Amnesty (1977) as the central moments of memory construction of the Francoist past during the Transition. This research examines the relationship between these events and the lingering …
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Encountering spectral traces: ghost narratives in Chinese America and Taiwan
… coalition. Additionally, both Chinese American literature and Taiwanese literature can be placed in the category of ‘minor literature’ in the Deleuzian sense. While written in the major languages, both ‘minor’ narratives carry the political concerns and represent the collective mentality of the …
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POSTNATIONALISM, HYBRIDITY, AND UTOPIA IN PAUL DURCAN’S POETRY: TOWARD AN IRISH MINORITARIAN LITERATURE
… UTOPIA IN PAUL DURCAN’S POETRY: TOWARD AN IRISH MINORITARIAN LITERATUREThe main question for contemporary Irish poet Paul Durcan (1944-) is how to find a way out of a rigid concept of national identity established by the Roman Catholic, middle-class, nationalist majority group in Ireland. …
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Out of sight: surrealism and photography in 1930s Japan
… is affirmed in this thesis through the notion of minor literature, characteristic for its deterritorialised, collective and immanently political character. These three defining characteristics enable construction of a minor historical framework through which Surrealist photography in Japan of the …
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Deleuzian Mappings With Rafael Chirbe's "little Machines"
… a new people. </p> <p> Other concepts include a "Minor Literature," that is a literature that "deterritorializes" language, a literature in which everything in it is immediately political, and a literature wherein everything takes on a collective value;" the "molar" or the "arborescent," which are …
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Madly in Love: A Meditation on the Capacity of Love and Madness
<p>"Madly in Love" contends that madness is not merely a condition to be pathologized buta 'supernatural' universal energy that transcends realms, moving through and around all bodies and leaving profound bio-physiological imprints. This dissertation introduces the concept of neo- madness, which …