The Postcolonial study
Name :parmar Nidhi Shamjibhai Semester : 3 M. A part 1 Paper no : 203 Paper : The Postcolonial study📚 ✍️ ~Class Assignment : Q 1)Give a comparative analysis of Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Foe’ in light of nationalism. Introduction Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe are closely related novels, but they represent two different attitudes towards colonialism, nationalism and cultural power. Robinson Crusoe reflects the confidence of eighteenth-century European society and its expanding colonial interests. Foe, written from a later postcolonial perspective, questions and challenges the colonial assumptions found in Defoe’s novel. Short Introduction of Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was an English novelist, journalist and political writer. He is one of the important early English novelists. His famous novel Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 . The novel deals with survival, individualism, adventure, eco...