Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… play Friday , and Coetzee’s well-known novella Foe. 1 . Pat Rogers, Classics and Chapbooks in Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Brighton: Harvester, 1985), p. 162-182. 2 . Laura Curtis, The Elusive Defoe … attitude, in his hostility towards conventions and his wish to make explicit what is usually left unexpressed: cultures should be regarded relatively, on their own terms . As a mariner, a man of trade and world traveller, Crusoe had encountered many different cultures before the shipwreck. In the following description we see him becoming an amalgam of diverse ethnicities: ‘My …
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