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Zhang, Y. (2010). Colonial Literary Classics and Their Rewriting: An Analysis of Coetzee’s Novel “Foe” as a Postcolonial Rewriting of “Robinson Crusoe”. In Proceedings of the Coetzee Symposium and International Conference on Postcolonial Literature (pp. 248-256). Wuhan University Press.

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• 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.