Tukacs, Tamás (2024) Mouths: Robinson Crusoe’s Colonial Fantasy and its Subversion. EGER JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 23. pp. 3-15. ISSN 1786-5638 (print); 2060-9159 (online)
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Abstract
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) can be read as a fundamental text of (Western) European colonisation and naturally, concomitant with this, of the Protestant middle-class homo economicus. The novel seems to justify several ideological, historical, political, racial and gender assumptions, which are revealed particularly sensitively in the very first encounter between Robinson and Friday. The study examines this scene, with particular attention to the phrase “a very good mouth.” The paper is seeking an answer to the question as to what position the coloniser assigns to the native in the light of the fact that Friday’s qualities that appear at first reading seem feminine, and thus, make Friday appear a feminine subject in this ‘colonial idyll.’
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, colonisation, gender, subject, colonial fantasy |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PE English / anglisztika |
| Depositing User: | Tibor Gál |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2025 06:10 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2025 06:10 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/221427 |
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