I am sharing 'Gender and Language in Coetzee's foe

I am sharing 'Gender and Language in Coetzee's foe

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  Gender and Languagein Coetzee's Foe: A Psychoanalytic analysis  Name: Panchasara Jignesh k.  Roll no: 8  Enrollment No: 3069206420200013  Paper No 3 : The Postcolonial Studies  Batch: 2020-2022  Email: [email protected]  Submitted To: S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU
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  J.M Coetzee. • JohnMaxwell Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.
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  J.M Coetzee’s Foe[Novel] • 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.
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  Story view.. •Susan Barton is on a quest to find her kidnapped daughter who she knows has been taken to the New World. She is set adrift during a mutiny on a ship to Lisbon. When she comes ashore, she finds Friday and Cruso who has grown complacent, content to forget his past and live his life on the island with Friday— tongueless by what Cruso claims to have been the act of former slave owners—in attendance. Arriving near the end of their residence, Barton is on the island for only a year before the trio is rescued, but the homesick Cruso does not survive the voyage to England
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  Continue….. • . InEngland with Friday, Barton attempts to set her adventures on the island to paper, but she feels her efforts lack popular appeal. She tries to convince novelist Daniel Foe to help with her manuscript, but he does not agree on which of her adventures is interesting. Foe would prefer to set her story of the island as one episode of a more formulaic story of a mother looking for her lost daughter, and when he does write the story she wishes, fabulates about Cruso's adventures rather than relating her facts. Frustrating Barton's efforts further, Foe, who becomes her lover, is preoccupied with debt and has little time or energy to write about anything. Barton's story takes a twist with the return of someone claiming to be her missing daughter.
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  Inability of language •Novel Foe is of the inability of language to express the story. In some way, Coetzee is telling that telling truth is impossible. The writer always distorts it and in the process the truth gets lost somewhere. Every narrative is a faulty narrative. The writer cares about what is going to sell in the market. He is not concerned about truth. In this brilliant portrayal of the psyche of a writer, Coetzee is telling that writers are not concerned by truth but by the perceived beauty of the narrative, about what will the audience, the readers will think of as beautiful.
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  Gender Identity…. Susan Bartonis the only one remaining who can tell and confirm the truth. But she is a woman and hence not in the power of changing and controlling the narrative of the novel and also of life. She is silenced by the more ‘practical’ voice of Foe, who is a typical misogynistic white superiority complex ridden male. He changes the narrative so much that the story becomes unrecognizable. Hence, Coetzee is telling us how much the original story of Robinson Crusoe must have been and how it was interpreted by the world.
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  power struggles andthe problem of language. • On the other hand, there is the voice of Susan Barton. Coetzee has narrated the misogynistictale of history in which women were dispossessed and removed from the positions of power. They had the heart to sympathize with the downtrodden but not the positions of power to make any change. It was a world dominated by chauvinistic, misogynistic males who did not care for the sensibilities of women. Any story told by men was not how a woman would view the world. Half of humanity had no voice and that is portrayed in Foe by the helplessness of Susan Barton and her ultimate failure in telling the true story of Cruso. It is a brilliant rendering of the age of colonialism
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  Works cited Metzler, Tobias,and Sasikarn Kongsak. Thaiscience.Info, 2021, https://www.thaiscience.info/journals/Article/SUIJ/10984821.pdf. Siddiqui, Dr. Zeba. Ijellh.Com, 2021, https://ijellh.com/wp- content/uploads/2014/07/41-456-460-1.pdf. Yazdanjoo, Morteza. "Gender And Language In Coetzee'S Foe: A Psychoanalytic Postcolonial Analysis". Academia.Edu, 2021, https://www.academia.edu/12641439/Gender_and_Language_in_ Coetzees_Foe_A_Psychoanalytic_Postcolonial_Analysis.
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