The Castaway
A man alone on a beach reads his island the way a shipwrecked sailor would, assembling an alphabet from driftwood, green bottle glass and the crab's scrawl in wet sand. Defoe's marooned Englishman returns as Adam, as Crusoe, as Friday and as the colonial artist obliged to name everything from scratch. The source of a Crusoe figure Caribbean writing has argued with ever since.
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- responds to ↑ Robinson Crusoe
- ↓ Petals of Blood
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