Political role of literature in Deleuze

In Deleuze's philosophy, minor literature has an important function of revealing processes of becoming and organizing lines of flight from societies of control generated by the capitalist machine to the immanent life. Minor literature immerses us in a process of deterritorialization which builds multiple lives in integrity with Deleuze's ontological and ethical views. Accordingly in this dissertation, we attempted to present the political role of Deleuze's readings of literature or its implications in contemporary political philosophy along with the fundamental concepts of his ontology and ethics. With reference to those fundamental concepts, we looked into Artaud and Beckett as examples of literature's border-experiences which carry traditional narrative styles, dominant modes of expression in language and representation to an absolute deterritorialization line. According to Deleuze, by following virtualities, Artaud's and Beckett's schizoid nomadic heroes invent or call for a new people and a new world. Beyond their existential anxieties and crisis that they're in, their nomadic heroes have transformed or have opened their bodies to different existences by shattering identities, borders, patterns of rational thought and forms of space and time of the common sense which place them in certain constructions. In this context, taking our cue from Artaud and Beckett as examples who have drawn lines of becoming and lines of flight in their works, we can claim that literature appears as 'the political' in Deleuze's thought.