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Metamorphoses of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Metamorphoses of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,00, University of
Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: "There scarce exists a work
so popular as Robinson Crusoe. It is read eagerly by young people;
and there is hardly an elf so devoid of imagination as not to have
supposed for himself a solitary island in which he could act
Robinson Crusoe, were it but in the corner of the nursery."
(Ballantyne 7) With these words, John Ballantyne reinstates
Robinson Crusoe (1719) as a novel appealing to younger readers in
his essay about "Daniel De Foe sic]," published in 1810. And
indeed: Although the implicit reader of the first novel in English
literature was not specifically mentioned to be of young age,
"children have been its principal readers throughout the last 300]
years" (Lundin 199). Thus, it is not surprising that novels also
popular with a younger audience - such as Treasure Island by Robert
Louis Stevenson - resemble the famous castaway narrative by
repeating its main topics and motifs like the solitary island and
the shipwreck (Green 143). One of the more recent adaptations of
Robinson Crusoe is Terry Pratchett's Nation, published in 2008:
Taking place "on a South Sea island in a skewed version of the 19th
century" (Boyce), the story centers around the cultural encounter
of the shipwrecked, adolescent daughter of a British colonial
governor, called Daphne, with an indigenous boy named Mau, whose
whole nation was obliterated by a tsunami. Whereas Robinson Crusoe
can be clearly considered to be an imperialist and racist novel,
with its protagonist becoming the "true symbol of the British
conquest" - as James Joyce puts it in his essay about Daniel Defoe
in 1912 (Joyce 10) - Pratchett's book has been appraised by critics
as a "novel of ideas, a ferocious questioning of vested cultural
attitudes and beliefs" (Dirda), and said to reveal "the stupidity
of "ignorance and prejudices i.e. concerning race]" (
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