Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an interest in continental philosophy, literary theory and critical and cultural theory, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature is a cutting edge volume, featuring some of the most original voices in the field, setting the agenda for future research.

Ian Buchanan is Director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of Deleuzism (2000) and the editor of Deleuze Studies.

Tim Matts holds a Ph.D. in Critical Theory from Cardiff University, Wales. He has worked with Italy’s National Agency for the Development of Scholastic Autonomy (ANSAS), a body within the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities, and Research (MIUR). More recently, he has published a number of collaborative papers on the concept of geotrauma.

Aidan Tynan teaches English literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms.

Part I: On the Theory and Practice of Schizoanalysis
1. Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project Ian Buchanan
2. The Drama of Schizoanalysis: On the Development of Deleuze and Guattari's Method, Iain Mackenzie (University of Kent) and Robert Porter (University of Ulster)
Part II: The Ethics of Style
3. Literary Know How, Sabrina Achilles (University of Western Sydney)
4. Building a People: Minor Literature and the Work of Culture Joe Hughes (University of Minnesota)
5. What Is Nonstyle in What Is Philosophy? Donald Cross (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
6. Tragic or Comedic Passions: Deleuze's Literary Apprenticeship, Ruben Borg (The Hebrew University of Jerusale)
Part III: Schizoanalysis and Deleuze's Critical and Clinical Project
7. Is Critique et Clinique Schizoanalytic? Garin Dowd (University of West London)
8. Kanafani in Kuwait: A Clinical Cartography, Mai Al-Nakib (Kuwait University)
9. Libidinal Symptomatology in Deleuze's Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, Erika Gaudlitz (University of Ballarat, Australia)
Part IV: Schizoanalytic Interventions
10. The Schizoanalysis of Literature: Iqbal's Becoming-Woman in The Rape of Sita, Simone Bignall (University of New South Wales)
11. The Analyst and the Nomad: Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K, Alan Bourassa (St Thomas University)
12. What is (Postcolonial) Literature? Prophets and Scribes in Édouard Glissant's The Fourth Century and Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco, Lorna Burns (University of Lincoln)
Part V: Literature and Life After Deleuze
13. Land, Negarestani, and Theory-Fiction as a Post-Deleuzian Genre, Tim Matts and Aidan Tyna
14. Negarestani in R'lyeh: Nested Fluids and Symbiosis between Stratification and Becoming, Ben Woodard (University of Western Ontario)
15. Accelerate Out of this World, Reza Negarestan
Bibliography
Index