Racialized realism: Daniel Defoe's mediations of the human in Colonel jack and Robinson crusoe.

I explore the relation between realism and racialization in Daniel Defoes Colonel Jack and Robinson Crusoe. I argue that at a formal as well as a thematic level, Defoes realism in these novels is predicated on mediating the contradictions of capitalist modernity, where the antagonistic rhetoric of l...

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