J. M. Coetzee's Foe: Revision of 'imperial/ colonial dominance'

<p>This paper examines J. M. Coetzee’s novel Foe (1986)<br>as a typical revisionary text written back to Daniel<br>Defoe’s eighteenth-century classic Robinson Crusoe<br>(1719). It applies a theoretical approach to get into the<br>technicalities and strategies of ‘Revisionary writing’,<br>an emerging sub-genre, and shows Coetzee’s success<br>in writing the classic of its own. How Coetzee breaks<br>Defoe’s textual/literary discourse while entering into a<br>thorough critical dialogue and shapes a ‘canonical<br>counter-discourse’, is the central thesis of this study.<br>An attempt is made to expatiate how Coetzee uses<br>‘intertextuality’ as a tool to destabilize Defoe’s<br>master-narrative and expose it as a colonial/imperial<br>text constructing the myth of the ‘orient’. Coetzee’s<br>artistic dexterity in foregrounding marginalized<br>voice/s is focused and analysed at length. </p>