Open AccessDystopian and Utopian Omission of Discourse in Three Modern Robinsonades: Lord of the Flies, Concrete Island, The Red Turtle
Author(s) -
Patrick Gill
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
porównania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1733-165X
DOI - 10.14746/por.2019.2.9
Subject(s) - narrative , dystopia , literature , successor cardinal , turtle (robot) , dominance (genetics) , history , order (exchange) , art , computer science , biology , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , mathematics , finance , economics , gene
The story of Robinson Crusoe comes to us in the guise of a first-person narrative based in part on a diary. Successor texts have traditionally adopted the same narrative situation, exploiting it in order to foreground ideas of authorship, textual authority and linguistic dominance. This essay pays particularly close attention to those Robinsonades that have not followed this pattern and have instead opted to omit meta-narration and intradiegetic narrator figures. It considers to what ends this is done in three modern Robinsonades: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954), J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island (1974), and Michael Dudok de Wit’s animated film The Red Turtle (2016).