SOURCE: Khan, Haider Ali. “Paz's Poetics: Textuality, Sexuality, Politics.” Denver Quarterly 27, no. 1 (summer 1992): 92-111.

In the following essay, Khan discusses cosmopolitan and multicultural influences on Paz's poetry.

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In their study of Kafka, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari raise a set of interrelated questions:

How many people today live in a language that is not their own? Or not yet, even know their own and know poorly the major language they are forced to serve? This is the problem of immigrants, and especially of their children, the problem of minorities, the problems of a minor literature, but also a problem for all of us: how to tear a minor literature away from its own language, allowing it to challenge the language and making it follow a sober revolutionary path? How to become a nomad and an immigrant and a gypsy in relation to one's own language?

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