Literary Theory

Jameson: Third-World Literature

Fredric Jameson’s controversial essay ‘Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism’ (1) sets out his theory of what he calls ‘third-world literature,’ positioning it as a form of national allegory. Since its publication in 1986, this essay has

Deleuze and Guattari: ‘Minor Literature’

First published in 1975, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature (1) draws on many of the themes of their earlier works; a critical stance towards psychoanalytical hegemony, an emphasis on the continuities between human