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The End(s) of the Canon Minor Writing and Writing of Minorities
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The End(s) of the Canon Minor Writing and Writing of Minorities By addressing the concept of "minor literature" in their study of Kafka, Deleuze and Guattari paved the way to new theoretical concepts.1 They interpreted Kafka's cultural marginality as the stimulus for a new mode of writing which resulted in what Kafka himself called a "minor literature" reflecting a polyvocality and heterogeneity that is central to contemporary minority literature. This concept of a small or minor literature, eine kleine Literatur, is seen as the collective and revolutionary literature of a minority writing in a major, dominant language. "A minor literature doesn't come from a minor language; it is rather that which a minority constructs within a major language" (Deleuze 16). Kafka believed himself to be creating a literature that is aware of the established literary works and genres but consciously creates itself a space outside of it. This literature does not imitate...
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