The Body Wall
Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices
©2006
Monographs
166 Pages
Series:
Literary and Cultural Theory, Volume 24
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 166
- Publication Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631545348
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Reisender (Motiv) Körper (Motiv) Literatur Geschichte Travel Exploration Traveller's Body Discursive Practices
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. 166 pp., 13 fig.
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