Toni Morison’s Beloved as a Minor Art Practice: A Deleuze-Guattarian Reading

سال انتشار: 1395
محل انتشار: چهارمین کنفرانس بین المللی پژوهشهای کاربردی در مطالعات زبان
کد COI اختصاصی: ELSCONF04_054
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 429

نویسندگان

MA in English Literature, University of Tehran

چکیده

Toni Morrison’s acute perception and treatment, in her novels, of the human and the postcolonial condition and her proposition of a problematics of individual and communal personhood have astounded contemporary readers andcritics alike. This article aims to provide a Deleuze-Guattarian analysis of the workings of human relationships, humancaptivity and experiential writing in capturing the encounters between a sense of the self, a sense of the other and aremembrance of the past in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this line, I argue that the text of Beloved instigates a formalistic deterritorialization of the English language by pushing it to the verge of non-signification. Throughdepicting a confrontation between traumatized ex-slaves and the haunting memories of captivity in the past, Belovedconstitutes a minor art practice that gives rise to non-identitarian modes of self-conception and emancipatory lines offlight. I will also discuss how the clash between a dominating imperialist discourse with its claims to rationality andpragmatism on one hand and a specifically African-American worldview with a more open and inclusive perception of life’s real possibilities on the other leads to the formation of multiple and heterogeneous assemblages of reality,memory and thought against pre-determined and ethnocentric values of being, identity and privilege. This marksMorrison’s attempt in building up a cornerstone of minoritarian writing, a minor literature, in the Deleuze -Guattarian sense of the term.

کلیدواژه ها

postcolonial condition, deterritorialization, minor literature, line of flight

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