Political Potentials of Body in the Postmodern Context

Abstract

Postmodernism is overtly preoccupied with the transformation of reality into superficial, fragmentary, and changing images. It attempts to construct the real through language and various forms of representation. On a closer analysis the political potentials and possibilities of postmodernism can be explored. The article analyzes politics of representation of body in the postmodern cultural context. The body has emerged in recent years as a key problematic in the social sciences and cultural studies. In the postmodern context, the body can be theorized as a potentially powerful site of resistance to hegemonic structures and narratives. The materiality of the body is inseparable from the power relations and historical forces and it complicates the relationship between the body and its discursive formations