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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-ŕ-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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Body Wall
• Subtitle: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices
• Author: Zbigniew Bialas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162
• EAN: 9783631545348
• ISBN: 9783631545348
• ID: 10019448
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 304 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 2006

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