Thinking activity on - FOE

Foe is a 1986 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Friday as their adventures were already underway. Like Robinson Crusoe, it is a frame story, unfolded as Barton's narrative while in England attempting to convince the writer Daniel Foe to help transform her tale into popular fiction. Focused primarily on themes of language and power, the novel was the subject of criticism in South Africa, where it was regarded as politically irrelevant on its release. 

Study material

1) Narrative Art as Colonizing

2) "Your pen your ink"

3) Feminism & Identity

4) Confronting Authority

Questions answered 

1) Explain in detail about " Narrative Art as Colonizing".

2) "Your pen your ink" what you understand by this word. Explain in detail

3) Do Feminist reading and also see the identity conflicts.

4) Confronting Authority ( From Robinson Crusoe To Foe ) explain in detail.

Citation

1) Zellner, Kelli (2002) "Narrative Art as a Colonizing Process: An Analysis of the Meta-Fictional Objective of J. M. Coetzee's Foe,"

Articulāte: Vol. 7 , Article 7.

Available at: http://digitalcommons.denison.edu/articulate/vol7/iss1/7

2) https://ro.uow.edu.au › cgiPDF

3) Hoegberg, David E., 'Your pen, your ink': Coetzee's Foe, Robinson Crusoe, and the Politics of Parody,

Kunapipi, 17(3), 1995.

Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol17/iss3/17 

4) https://journals.lib.unb.ca › IFRPDF

5) https://youtu.be/p7ZY9cMNJWU

6)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foe_(Coetzee_novel)