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Global Crusoe - Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Global Crusoe - Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe, from a
Native American reservation to a Botswanan village, to explore the
huge variety of contemporary incarnations of Daniel Defoe's
intrepid character. In her study of the novels, poems, short
stories and films that adapt the Crusoe myth, Ann Marie Fallon
argues that the twentieth-century Crusoe is not a lone, struggling
survivor, but a cosmopolitan figure who serves as a warning against
the dangers of individual isolation and colonial oppression. Fallon
uses feminist and postcolonial theory to reexamine Defoe's original
novel and several contemporary texts, showing how writers take up
the traumatic narratives of Crusoe in response to the intensifying
transnational and postcolonial experiences of the second half of
the twentieth century. Reading texts by authors such as Nadine
Gordimer, Bessie Head, Derek Walcott, Elizabeth Bishop, and J.M.
Coetzee within their social, historical and political contexts,
Fallon shows how contemporary revisions of the novel reveal the
tensions inherent in the transnational project as people and ideas
move across borders with frequency, if not necessarily with ease.
In the novel Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe's discovery of 'Friday's
footprint' fills him with such anxiety that he feels the print like
an animal and burrows into his shelter. Likewise, modern readers
and writers continue to experience a deep anxiety when confronting
the narrative issues at the center of Crusoe's story.
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