Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's postmodern theory
enables us to view Walt Whitman and Odysseus Elytis as major poets
who, by deterritorializing and reterritorializing the English and
Greek languages, respectively, become suitable for American and Greek
realities and models. Ultimately, however, this contributes to the two
poets' minority status. Their unique adaptation of language to American
and Greek realities qualifies their writings as minor literature.