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What does aptly define minor literature, according to Giles Deleuze?

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A

Deconstruction of Material Reality

B

Deterritorialisation of language

C

Heteroglossia

D

Metanarrative

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Correct Answer :

Option B

Deterritorialisation of language

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The correct option is Deterritorialisation of language.

According to the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their influential work Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (1975), a "minor literature" is not the literature of a minor language, but rather that which a minority constructs within a major language. They define minor literature through three essential characteristics:
1. The deterritorialisation of language.
2. The connection of the individual to a political immediacy.
3. The collective assemblage of enunciation.

The deterritorialisation of language refers to the way a minority writer uses a dominant, major language to express a different experience, effectively subverting, displacing, or destabilizing the language from its traditional cultural and territorial roots. For instance, they write about how Franz Kafka, a German-speaking Jew in Prague, used the dominant German language in a way that stripped it of its grand narratives, creating a unique, "deterritorialised" mode of expression that undermines the language's established authority from within.

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