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Author_Ann Marie Fallon
Bessie Head
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Caribbean Literature
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Crusoe Story
Crusoe's Island
crusoes
Crusoe’s Island
Discursive Practice
East Indies
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farther
Farther Adventures
foes
Friday's Footprint
Friday’s Footprint
Gordimer
island
Ivory Coast
La Isla
literary
Literary Revision
Man Booker Prize
Moses Ascending
Nadine Gordimer
National Academy
Pieyre De Mandiargues
Postcolonial Revision
revision
robinson
Robinson Cruso
Social Imaginary
Solid Water
strange
Strange Surprising Adventures
surprising
Transnational Feminist Practices
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409429982
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Anne Marie Fallon is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Honors Program at Portland State University, USA.
