1st Edition
Global Crusoe Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics
By Ann Marie Fallon
Copyright 2011
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Literary Revision and Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 2 Revision and Dislocation in The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 3 “The First True Creole”; Chapter 4 South African Revisions; Chapter 5 Cannibal Desires; Chapter 6 Beloved Island; Chapter 7 “The World is Full of Islands”;
Biography
Anne Marie Fallon is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Honors Program at Portland State University, USA.
'... an interesting and useful overview of the way the Robinson Crusoe story has been reimagined and rewritten since the 18th century... the book is readable and carefully written... Recommended.' Choice 'This book was begging to be written. There are few books as well known and widely re-written as Robinson Crusoe and this analysis of the transcultural re-writings of a colonial classic is an important and groundbreaking enterprise opening up a rich field of post-colonial writing.' Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales 'Fallon’s reading of Defoe’s novel and its aftermath in the context of transnationalism provides new ways of understanding and engaging with these texts... Global Crusoe offers valuable criticism of Robinson Crusoe and its aftermath...' Transnational Literature
