Politics and Minor Literature

Mukasa Mubirumusoke is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Black Hospitality: A Theoretical Framework for Black Ethical Life.Osman Nemli is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. His work focuses on Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the History of Philosophy. He is currently working on a book focusing on critiques of political economy in conversation and contestation with traditional Marxist critiques.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: a Transcultural Aesthetics of Minor LiteratureMukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli1 Writing the Percept: Minor Literature and SpinozaEric Aldieri2 Minor Literatures and the Politics of Difficult PastsCilliers van den Berg3 Kafkaesque Portraits in Israeli-Palestinian LiteratureOfra Amihay4 Aesthetics of Diaspora: Pseudo-Translation in Ameen RihaniAmany Dahab5 Zong!’s Untelling: Minor Literature and RiskMukasa Mubirumusoke6 Anzaldúa’s Revolutionary Self-WritingKatherine Davies7 Minor Poetry: the—Scapes of Nâzım HikmetOsman Nemli8 Missing People: Kim Sa-ryang and the Geist of Heinrich HeineAlexandra YanConclusionMukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman NemliIndex