Global Crusoe
Subtitle: comparative literature, postcolonial theory and transnational aesthetics
By: by Ann Marie Fallon
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781409429982; 9781409429999
Subjects: Adaptations; Robinsonades; Influence; Islands in literature; Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character); Transnationalism and literature; Globalization and literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Other titles: Comparative literature, postcolonial theory and transnational aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Literary revision and Robinson Crusoe; title: Revision and dislocation in the strange and surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; title: "The first true creole" : creation stories in Derek Walcott and Sam Selvon; title: South African revisions : J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Bessie Head; title: Cannibal desires : feminist revision and Marianne Wiggins' John Dollar; title: Beloved island : transnational revision, translation and Victoria Slavuski's Música para olvidar una isla; title: "The world is full of islands".