Transgressions and Reterritorializations as Markers of Minor Literature in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick, or Lonesome no More!

Deterritorialization and reterritorialization are transgressive techniques in literature that characterize subversive literature. Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari suggest questions about marginal or other forms of peripheral literatures must all be covered within the designation definition minor literature, not only if they written language mainstream. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick, Lonesome no More (1976) is a set deterritorializations reterritorializations made possible through creative assemblage, technique allows continuous flow meaning, is, meaning fixed, as moves from one territory to another, constructing new assemblages acquiring meanings. Meaning changes each time assemblage composed. Through re-construction family, love, human relationships, novel defies alienating practices American society presented novel. (MM WHRM)