%0 Journal Article
%T Deleuze, Immanence, and Immanent Writing in Qualitative Inquiry: Nonlinear Texts and Being a Traitor to Writing
%A Serge F. Hein
%J Qualitative Inquiry
%@ 1552-7565
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077800418784328
%X Modernist writing relies on writing elements such as linearity, meaning, plot, internal coherence, subject¨Cpredicate relations, structure in general, and identity or fixity. For Deleuze, writing is nonreductive, destabilizes meaning, and undermines a thematic reading. More specifically, it rejects a sense of beginning, middle, and end; subject¨Cobject distinctions; subjects who are developed according to a structure; and a sense of identity. Deleuze¡¯s concepts of immanence and the virtual are discussed, and two major forms of Deleuzian writing are then examined. Nonlinear texts are organized in a way that fails to meet the modernist demand for a linear, internally coherent, and unified narrative. Being a traitor to one¡¯s own writing involves writing against any stabilizing sense of identity and against other modernist categories and boundaries. Portions of Blanchot¡¯s story, The Madness of the Day, are used to illustrate each writing strategy, and an illustrative example from my own experience is then presented
%K immanence
%K virtual
%K Deleuze
%K immanent writing
%K qualitative inquiry
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800418784328