| The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices Contributor(s): Kalaga, Wojciech (Other), Bialas, Zbigniew (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631545347 ISBN-13: 9783631545348 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $69.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2006040976 |
| Series: Literary and Cultural Theory, |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.45 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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- -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. |