%0 Journal Article
%T Toward the Inhuman: Mapping the Micropolitics of Minor Literature in Beloved
%A Che-ming Yang
%J International Journal of English Linguistics
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.5539/ijel.v2n1p128
%X This paper explores Toni Morrison¡¯s most celebrated novel¡ªBeloved, which, just like The White Hotel, (re)presents a historical trauma (slavery). I intend to take one step further beyond the existing scholarship by employing a Deleuzian (micro)politics of minor language/literature as well as a schizoanalysis (against Freudian psychoanalysis) of the deterritorialization of the main characters (the baby ghost excluded) in Beloved¡ªSethe, Paul D, and Denver (Sethe¡¯s daughter). To be more specific, through exploring the main characters¡¯ deterritorialization of slavery and its haunting shadow (the unspeakable horror and pain) in this novel, this paper aims to achieve a mapping (the Deleuzian term for a proper attitude of approaching the contingent realities) of a Deleuzian poetics/problematics of how to create a minoritarian language (Black English) for (re)presenting an extraordinary vision of the collective traumatic memory of extreme suffering, brutality, and inhumanity embodied in this exceptionally breathtaking novel.
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijel/article/view/14675