ABSTRACT
Nation, language, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation: these condition and may determine a writer's outlook, but they cannot contain it. Even in their distinction of a minor literature, as that produced by a minority within a major language, Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattan recognize the rebel impulse, the need not to belong entirely. Three characteristics mark such literature deterritorialization of language, the connection to a political immediacy, and its innately collective value. The Paraguayan writer Rubn Bareiro Saguier derived a similar experience from his immersion in French critical thought after arriving in Paris in 1962 as a political exile. Often, exile serves to reconfirm the writer's language community. By way of some audience, as by the commerce of literary activity, the writer partakes in the creation of an open-ended community that cannot ever be fully typified, though it overlaps with other communities that may lay claim to him or her.
