| Sumario: | Gertrude Stein's unique approach to meaning production in Tender Buttons (1914) facilitates passage to minoritarian understandings of social constructs. As an example of Deleuzo-Guattarian "minor literature," Tender Buttons liberates language from majoritarian social forces by subverting linguistic conventions in morphology, orthography, pronunciation, and semiotics. Grounded in the quotidian, the semiotic potential of order-words from "Suppose an Eyes," "Way Lay Vegetable," and an excerpt from "Rooms" elucidates how hegemonic systems like capitalism, patriarchy, and heteronormativity restrict and repress expression. Thus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's conceptualization of a Minor Literature can be used to liberate texts like Tender Buttons from the majoritarian social forces that steer meaning production.
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