Article: Interrupting the canon: Samuel Selvon's postcolonial revision of Robinson Crusoe.(Critical essay)

Europe's material conquest and colonization of much of the world was preceded, accompanied and authorized by what Edward W. Said describes as "impressive ideological formations that include notions that certain territories and people require and beseech domination, as well as forms of knowledge affiliated with domination" (9). Journals of explorers, imaginative travel writings by individuals who never left home, Hakluyt's voyages, all produced Europe's differentiated perception of itself in relation to something they made possible to call "the rest of the world." The representational practices of Europe reinforced its notion of itself as destined to rule "the rest of the ...






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