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S/LI/373. Can Coetzee's “Foe” be called a postcolonial rewriting of Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe”?

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2009
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The paper examines the novel “Foe” by J.M.Coetzee arguing that it is a postcolonial rewriting of Daniel Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe” and tracing the postcolonial aspects of “Foe” through the analysis of the antithesis between Coetzee's and Defoe's portrayals of Friday, their use of spoken language, etc. References are made to the works of post-colonial theorists.

 

KEYWORDS: Coetzee, Foe, Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Friday, post-colonial,

 
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