Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… safe haven and cannibal banqueting ground. 4 While it was traditionally discussed with reference to the rise of the novel in the context of European expansion and colonization, more recently it has also been considered in terms of … studies, and post-colonial rewritings such as for instance Derek Walcott’s play Friday , and Coetzee’s well-known novella Foe. 1 . Pat Rogers, Classics and Chapbooks in Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England … Exile and the Narrative Imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986); Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel (Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991). 4 . Maximillian E. Novak, ‘Imaginary Islands and Real Beasts: The Imaginative …
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