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The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices

The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices

Bialas, Zbigniew
Kalaga, Wojciech

Paperback

Series: Literary and Cultural Theory, Book 24

English as a Second LanguageGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3631545347
ISBN13: 9783631545348
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jan 30 2006
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Contemporary materialism, in its varied configurations, persistently challenges claims that the body can be relegated to a subservient position when compared to reason. In most pertinent colonial and postcolonial studies the body is seen as a text, upon and by means of which signs of difference are instituted. Yet, to be able to test and appreciate to what extent the postcolonial body was and remains today a battleground for discursive control, it is helpful to start with the awareness of the somatics of the traveller himself - his agreement to and with his own person or lack thereof vis-à-vis other bodies, his translation of the somatic into the semantic. The traveller's body, when rendered in writing, becomes a symbolic construct which enters into a relation with the represented world, and the nature of this multifaceted, troubled alliance - if alliance it is - forms the main theme of this book.

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