TITLE:
Susan Barton’s Voice and Friday’s Silence from the Perspective of Post-Colonialism in Foe
AUTHORS:
Wannan Wang
KEYWORDS:
Foe, Post-Colonialism, The Other, Coetzee
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.9,
September
15,
2023
ABSTRACT: John Maxwell Coetzee was an excellent writer, his first novel Foe, which is the rewriting of Defoe’s
Robinson Crusoe, earns a lot of acclaim from home and abroad. Coetzee gives the
marginal female the role of main character, who tells the whole story. However,
Susan still exists as the colonizer to Friday and the relationship between
Susan and Friday is self and “the other”. With the help of the post-colonialism
theory, through the analysis of Barton’s ambivalent attitude towards Friday, this
thesis manages to explore the Susan’s voices and Friday’s silence in Foe.