Robinson Crusoe (eBook)

300th Anniversary Edition

Daniel Defoe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
384 Seiten
Restless Books (Verlag)
978-1-63206-120-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations by Eko and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era.Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel.But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized that still resound today. As celebrated Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid writes in her bold new introduction, "e;The vivid, vibrant, subtle, important role of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, with his triumph of individual resilience and ingenuity wrapped up in his European, which is to say white, identity, has played in the long, uninterrupted literature of European conquest of the rest of the world must not be dismissed or ignored or silenced."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Restless Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Restless Classics
• Einführung: Jamaica Kincaid
• Illustrationen: Eko
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Adventure • Adventure novel • Adventure Story • best adventure novels • best books about the Caribbean • best English novels of all time • British Empire • cannibals • Caribbean • Caribbean adventure story • Caribbean Studies • castaway • classics • Colonialism • Colonial Literature • Daniel Defoe • daniel defoe robinson crusoe • Eko • Empire • first English novel • Jamaica Kincaid • Mexican artist • mutiny • Postcolonialism • postcolonial studies • Restless Classics • Robinson Crusoe • Trinidad • Tropical Island • World literature
• ISBN-10: 1-63206-120-1 / 1632061201
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-120-1 / 9781632061201