少数文学:一个生成的概念

Minor Literature:Becoming of a Concept

“少数文学”是世界文学视角下对文学关系的重要论述。在20世纪60至80年代,“少数文学”的出现、概念化与再次概念化是牵动法国文学翻译、哲学与文学批评的知识事件。以同时代的翻译、哲学与批评文本为参照,对“少数文学”的生成与流变进行语境化的考察可以发现,“少数文学”经历了从想法到概念、再从概念到实践的生成过程。这个概念不仅是德勒兹与瓜塔里对结构和精神分析反思的交汇点,也是两人在文本中寻求概念层面突破的典型案例。溯源“少数文学”的概念,不仅能透视法国知识界对文本问题的持续关注,也能为后殖民主义视角下探讨文学关系提供有益的借鉴。

“Minor literature”is one of the most important concepts for considering literary relationships under the perspective of world literature.From the 1960s to the 1980s,this notion’s appearance,conceptualization,and reconceptualization contributed to an intellectual event that stirred up the communities of literary translation,philosophy,and literary criticism.By resorting to translation,philosophical texts,and critical texts,this article offers a contextualized study of the concept’s becoming.From idea to concept,and then from concept into practice:“minor literature”is not only a meeting point of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for their reflections on structure and psychoanalysis,but also a particular case where conceptual breakthrough was accomplished within a literary text.Tracing“minor literature”to its sources,this study demonstrates the central place of text for French theories and lays grounds for the study of literary relationships from a post-colonial perspective.