Robinson Crusoe in Asia. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steve Clark, Yukari Yoshihara.
• Editors: Clark, S. H (Steven H.), 1957-; Yoshihara, Yukari
• Contents: Introduction.- Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company.- Between Castaways and Traders: Cannibal-cum-Crusoe in Sumatra and Andaman Islands.- Robinson Crusoe in the Context of Travel Narrative of Early Modern England on Asia.- Robinson Crusoe, Improvement and Intellectual Piracy in the Early Enlightenment.- Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy.- 'Le coeur fou Robinsonne a travers les romans': Crusoe's Farther Adventures in the French Robinsonade.- Krusoe Robinson's Adventure: Technology of the Self and Double Consciousness in Joachim Heinrich Campe's Robinson der Jungere.- Kicking Away the Gold Coins: Ōtsuka Hisao's Reading of Robinson Crusoe and the 'Human Archetype' of Post-War Japan.- Transforming and Translating the Novel Form: The Examples of Daniel Defoe and Lin Shu.- The Boy and the Sea: Translating Robinson Crusoe in Early Twentieth-Century Korea.- 'I must endure courageously and manfully'— Robinson Crusoe Translated by Minami Yōichirō and its Influence on Later Translations in Post-War Japan.- Robinsonades in Japan: Colonial Fantasy, Survivalist Narrative, and Homo Economicus.- Crusoe Comes to Caramoan: The Survival of American Cultural Imperialism in the Philippines.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 823.5; Culture-Study and teaching; Literary Criticism -- Asian -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Ethnology--Asia; Oriental literature; Comparative literature; Social Science -- General; Cultural studies; Asia -- In literature; Adaptations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811640513
• Related ISBNs: 9789811640506
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