Parrot Poll

Animal Mimesis in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

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  • Roland Borgards Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9451

Abstract

The paper focuses on the famous scene in which Poll the parrot talks to Robinson Crusoe. It gives a close reading, revealing the ambivalence of violence and care in the relation between Robinson and Poll. It expands this ambivalence to a postcolonial approach, and it investigates — with and beyond Derrida — the poetological implications of the parrot's faculty of mimesis.

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Author Biography

  • Roland Borgards, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

    Roland Borgards is Professor of German Literature at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His books include a German handbook on Animal Studies (Tiere. Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch) and, as Guest-Editor of the Journal for Literary Theory 9/2 (2015), the special issue on Cultural and Literary Animal Studies.

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Published

2020-03-20

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2020)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2020 Roland Borgards

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How to Cite

Borgards, Roland. 2020. “Parrot Poll: Animal Mimesis in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe”. Humanimalia 11 (2): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9451.