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标题：Toward the Inhuman: Mapping the Micropolitics of Minor Literature in Beloved
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作者：Che-ming Yang
期刊名称：International Journal of English Linguistics
印刷版ISSN：1923-869X
电子版ISSN：1923-8703
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：128
DOI：10.5539/ijel.v2n1p128
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：This paper explores Toni Morrison’s most celebrated novel—Beloved, 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—Sethe, 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.