Imagined Places
Robinson Crusoe and Elizabeth Bishop
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kit Fan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-53 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2005.0026 |
| OpenAlex | W2041525409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper explores representations of geographical displacement in the work of American poet Elizabeth Bishop in relation to ideas of imagined places and an imaginary "home." It focuses on Bishop's late poem "Crusoe in England," in which she offers a revisionary account of one of the prime European travel narratives, and it compares Bishop's Crusoe to those of Caribbean poet Derek Walcott's "Crusoe Island" and South African J. M. Coetzee's Foe, mapping how by rediscovering Crusoe, out of a profound experience of multiple displacement, the writers discover many ways of writing home
Art · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · The Imaginary · History · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |