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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 56

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple select

Which statements describe Deleuze and Guattari’s “minor literature”?

  1. Their discussion focuses on Kafka.
  2. It is literature produced by a minority in a major language.
  3. It is a form of popular literature.
  4. It is simply literature in a minor language.

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Correct answer: (A) Their discussion focuses on Kafka.; (B) It is literature produced by a minority in a major language.

Explanation

Their Kafka study develops minor literature as a minority’s use of a major language, involving deterritorialisation, political immediacy and collective enunciation. Thus A,B. “Minor” does not mean merely popular, low-status or written in a numerically small language, so C,D miss the theoretical distinction.

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