ABSTRACT
There is much of significance in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. In a specific context, which does not concern me here, it is an excellent reading of Kafka. In a more general context, which does concern me here, their definition of “minor literature” shares many elements with postcolonial literatures, not least that of linguistic and political contestation. However, what really concerns me here is not what I find enabling in this influential essay, but what I find problematic.
