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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 5(3), pp. 65-72, May, 2017 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2017.021
Review paper
Lifting the Veil off Crusoe’s Empire in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Shagufta Parween
1-8-501/8, Second Floor, Opposite Dr Bhaskar Raga Clinic, Prakash Nagar, Opposite Begumpet Airport Hyderabad-500016, Telangana, India. E-mail: daisyazim@gmail.com
Accepted 29 May 2017
The aim of this research paper is to offer a postcolonial interpretative reading of Daniel Defoe’s magnum opus Robinson Crusoe. For years the text has been appreciated as a classic text of adventure, a tale of individualism, capitalism and also of spiritual growth. It has been studied as an exemplary text representing the liberal, adventurous and progressive spirit of the age. And while postcolonial elements in the narrative have been discussed before, critical readings of the text have not laid enough focus on the extreme denigration and essentialization of the native culture and religion and the repeated acts of assault on nature and animals that the ruler/colonialist, Crusoe engages in the fiction. This paper seeks to explore this gap in the field of critical inquiry with respect to the text of Robinson Crusoe.
Keywords: Postcolonial, colonialism, exploitation, Caribbean, native, land, people, culture
Cite This Article As: Parween S (2017). Lifting the Veil off Crusoe’s Empire in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 5(3): 65-72 |
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