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Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature, 2017, p.94-105
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Ever since Robinson Crusoe (1719), the desert island has been a vehicle for
discussing ideas about society and nature. Moreover, because of its early
adoption into the canon of children’s literature, Robinson Crusoe is also a
key text about childhood-especially in adaptations for children, such as
J. H. Campé’s 1779 version, or in the child-oriented Robinsonades that will
come under particular scrutiny in this chapter. In such works, we recognize
the motifs of Robinson Crusoe: the isolation, self-reliance, and survival of the
shipwrecked; the strange environment and encounter with alien others; the
building of a new society/civilization; and, finally, the escape and reintegration of the shipwrecked with the world. According to Sandra Beckett,
these motifs are “usually accompanied by a spiritual regeneration” (353);
the isolation could lead to “new self-awareness” but also to “a regression
into animality” (ibid). Although child Robinsonades share these features
with more adult-oriented Robinsonades, it is also clear that the motifs have
been somewhat modified for the texts to conform to the conventions of
children’s literature.