G. Deleuze and F.
Guattari, Kafka:
Toward a Minor Literature. Minneapolis, MN., 1987. p.37; p.7. "The
question of the non-human is central here. It is a question posed by language
itself, and one that can be phrased in terms of language. What is the non-human,
and why must it be invoked by the question of language? If we insist on
phrasing the question of the non-human in affirmative terms (that is, if
we insist on seeing in the 'non' of 'non-human' negativity rather than
difference) we will find ourselves back at the three great figures of the
non-human:
the animal, the machine, and the divinity." A. Bourassa,
"Literature, Language, and the Nonhuman. Canadian Review of Comparative
Literature. September
1997. p.560.