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Colonizing Gestures: Crusoe, the Signing Sovereign

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0 Published in 2017 at "Eighteenth-Century Fiction"

DOI: 10.3138/ecf.29.4.537

Abstract: abstract:This article offers a reading of the colonialist and ableist (audist) assumptions that undergird Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). I argue that Crusoe’s fraught experience of sound on the island serves as punishment for sins… read more here.

Keywords: crusoe; crusoe signing; robinson crusoe; gestures crusoe ... See more keywords