The subject is Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719 and then crossed borders, continents, and languages in republications
and translations. Ann Marie Fallon (humanities, Portland State U.) tracks the many permutations; discusses the work in connection with writings by Derek Walcott, Sam Selvon, J.M. Coetzee,
Nadine Gordimer, and Bessie Head; and offers discussion of cannibal desires, feminist revision, and Marianne Wiggins' John Dollar. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)