Global Crusoe : Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics
Ann Marie. Fallon
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (171 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; 1 Literary Revision and Robinson Crusoe; 2 Revision and Dislocation in The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; 3 "The First True Creole": Creation Stories in Derek Walcott and Sam Selvon; 5 Cannibal Desires: Feminist Revision and Marianne Wiggins' John Dollar; 6 Beloved Island: Transnational Revision, Translation, and Victoria Slavuski's Música para olvidar una isla; 7 "The World is Full of Islands"; Bibliography; Index. - Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe to explore the huge variety of contemporary incarnations of Daniel Defoe's intrepid character. Reading texts by authors such as Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Derek Walcott and J.M. Coetzee, 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.
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| Emner | Coetzee, J.M. , 1940- : (NO-TrBIB)90114178
Defoe, Daniel , 1661-1731 : (NO-TrBIB)90062701 Gordimer, Nadine , 1923-2014 : (NO-TrBIB)90088535 Head, Bessie : (NO-TrBIB)90053099 Vis mer... Selvon, Sam : (NO-TrBIB)90123147
Slavuski, Victoria : (NO-TrBIB)12028110 Walcott, Derek : (NO-TrBIB)90105449 Wiggins, Marianne : (NO-TrBIB)90534706 Literature and globalization Literature and transnationalism Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character). Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Adaptations. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Influence. Globalization and literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Islands in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Robinsonades. Transnationalism and literature. Globalisering Identitet Languages & Literatures Literature - General Litteratur : (NO-TrBIB)HUME06452 Litteraturkritikk Motiver (Litteratur) Motiver : (NO-TrBIB)HUME29169 Postkolonialisme Transnasjonalisme Øyer robinsonader |
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| ISBN | 9781409429982
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