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TL;DR: In this article, an intertextual approach to J.M. Coetzee's Foe through five French texts in the wake of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is presented.
Abstract: Summary This essay is an intertextual approach to J.M. Coetzee's Foe through five French texts in the wake of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. A discussion of the departures from Defoe's text in the dating and location of the island adventure as a topos establishes that the French narrative texts eliminate polemic relations. These texts however fail to extricate themselves from the hypotext through the figure of Robinson Crusoe who remains a fiction of the self developing as a subject within the topos of the desert isle. Emancipation from and subversion of the hypotext is rather achieved through the figure of Friday who emerges as an equal or a desirable alternative to be copied, but remains an object in a white man's discourse. An analysis of the treatment of the black man's language by Defoe and J.M. Coetzee establishes that, in the fiction of Robinson Crusoe, Friday can only be a parrot or a mute. The third (female) figure of Susan Barton in Foe allows the South African writer to introduce a “middle voi...
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TL;DR: Culler et al. as discussed by the authors published a collection of essays about the role of race relations in the development of the Internet and its role in the Internet, including the following:
Abstract: Previously Published by Basil Blackwell, Inc. 432 Park Avenue South, Suite 1503, New York, NY 10016. Copyright 2005 by Jonathan Culler. All rights reserved.
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01 Jan 1967
TL;DR: In this paper, Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique presents an odyssey of Robinson's personal development which explicitly tackles the philosophical and psychological problematic of Self and Other a problematic which, as we know, is magnified and thrown into relief by the literal isolation of the protagonist.
Abstract: Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique presents an odyssey of Robinson's personal development which explicitly tackles the philosophical and psychological problematic of Self and Other a problematic which, as we know, is magnified and thrown into relief by the literal isolation of the protagonist. I would like to chart this particular Robinson's search for a solution to the problems of solitude and alterity by considering two of the novel's narrative strands, tracing, on the one hand, Robinson's physical and erotic development, and on the other hand the evolution of his relationship with language. I shall first point to the type of personal evolution these two themes appear to portray, and then focus a little more closely on the novel's conclusion, to see whether initial appearances are fully borne out. Robinson's sexual development constitutes perhaps the dominant narrative of Tournier's novel. When he first arrives on the island, he is already married and the father of a family, and his
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