Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard
(2016)
Journal Article
Sivyer, C. (2016). Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard. Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, VI, 73-91
This article will argue that J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island can be productively read as a narrative that engages some of the central ideas of posthumanism and that from this reading one can then re read its source text, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cruso... Read More about Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard.