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    "pk": 39883,
    "title": "Kundera and Ionesco on the Unmistakable Awareness of Being Minor",
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    "abstract": "Deleuze and Guattari’s 1975 text, \nKafka, pour une littérature mineure\n, posited a theory concerning some groups of literary texts including those of Franz Kafka. Their theory was nevertheless highly connected to their own historical and geographical context in France, and much less so with that of Kafka who had himself previously attempted to theorize small literatures. By looking at the context of Kafka and of two other writers who might be considered as belonging to minor literary contexts, I argue that theorists of minor literature tend to view minor literature in a positive way when their own cultural context is further from nation-state building. On the other hand, those writers who are writing from inside nation-building contexts tend to emphasize minor literature’s limits on literary production. Interestingly, Milan Kundera and Eugene Ionesco who had first-hand experience of nation-building contexts, but then moved to France and wrote in French, take more nuanced views of minor literatures as they are further removed in time and space from their original minor contexts.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "minor literature theory, empire, nation-state, identity, privilege, Kafka"
        }
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    "section": "Articles",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Maria",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lupas",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Sophia University Junior College Division",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-06-15T08:12:26Z",
    "date_accepted": "2019-06-15T08:12:26Z",
    "date_published": "2020-05-11T17:03:46Z",
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