People Are Missing: Minor Literature Today

The people are missing is a constant refrain in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattaris writings after the 1975 publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure, but in the second cinema book, Cinéma 2: LImage-temps, the refrain is restricted to third-world cinema. Gregg Lambert traces the “narrowing” of the refrain and asks if this results in reducing the positive conditions of art and philosophy in the postmodern period.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 144 pages
\n Publication date: 01 March 2021
\n Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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After the publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure in 1975, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari frequently used the phrase "The people are missing" in their writings. The translation of this work into English in 1986 marked a significant turning point, as the refrain quickly gained popularity in the North American academy and was particularly applied to the works of minorities and postcolonial writers. However, in their second cinema book, Cinéma 2: L'Image-temps, the refrain was limited to third-world cinema, where Deleuze and Guattari sought to identify the conditions for truly postwar political cinema. In this critical reflection, Gregg Lambert explores the narrowing of the refrain itself, as well as the premise that art can create the conditions for a "people" or a "nation." Lambert raises important questions about whether this reduction of positive conditions in art and philosophy is inevitable in the postmodern period. He also offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze's hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the context of contemporary critical theory.

In their writings following the publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure in 1975, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari frequently used the phrase "The people are missing." The translation of this work into English in 1986 marked a significant turning point, as the refrain quickly gained popularity in the North American academy and was particularly applied to the works of minorities and postcolonial writers.

However, in their second cinema book, Cinéma 2: L'Image-temps, the refrain was limited to third-world cinema, where Deleuze and Guattari sought to identify the conditions for truly postwar political cinema.

In this critical reflection, Gregg Lambert explores the narrowing of the refrain itself, as well as the premise that art can create the conditions for a "people" or a "nation." Lambert raises important questions about whether this reduction of positive conditions in art and philosophy is inevitable in the postmodern period.

He also offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze's hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the context of contemporary critical theory.

\n Weight: 176g\n
Dimension: 127 x 203 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781496224316\n \n