Abstrakt
The paper analyses sensuality in Jakuba Katalpa's novel Is Soil for Eating? that Czech literary critics accused of excessive eroticism or even pornography. Nevertheless, the analysis focuses on the affirmative character of the narration which is interpreted as a mosaic record of building the narrator's own (nomadic) identity.
The starting point of her project is her female body experienced with all her senses, as well as sexuality and language, tightly connected to corporeality. Sensuality serves as a means to build the narrator's identity as well as to redefine female subjectivity.
The result is not a discovery of an alleged proto-essence of female identity but a creation of a mosaic, transitional, open identity that does not long for stability but rather enjoys its own changeability.