{"product_id":"the-body-wall-von-zbigniew-bialas","title":"The Body Wall","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-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.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783631545348\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSomatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783631545348","offer_id":46961899929925,"sku":"9783631545348","price":64.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/84990089-b9ea-4182-8903-654358d9de0b.jpg?v=1781670385","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-body-wall-von-zbigniew-bialas","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}