Robinson Crusoe in Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	Works Cited
2 Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company
	Farther Mercantile Adventures
	A New Voyage
	Works Cited
3 Between Castaways and Traders: Cannibal-Cum-Crusoe in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands
	Introduction
	The Early Discourse of Cannibalism in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands
	The Discourse of Cannibalism in the Andaman Islands in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
	Metonymy of Colonization in Robinson Crusoe’s Discourse of Cannibalism
	Discourse of Cannibalism as Mediation in the Contact Zone
	Works Cited
4 Robinson Crusoe in the Context of Travel Narrative of Early Modern England on Asia
	Asia, Japan, and Robinson Crusoe’s Voyages
	Japan in Psalmanazar’s Formosa
	Japan in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
	Why Does Crusoe Give up His Visit to Japan?―Defoe’s Strategy for Realistic Narrative
	Japan, East Asian Countries, and the Formation of English Prose Fiction
	Works Cited
5 Robinson Crusoe, Improvement and Intellectual Piracy in the Early Enlightenment
	Introduction
	Defoe and Improvement
	Robinson Crusoe and the Robinsonades
	Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates
	Piracy and Improvement
	Works Cited
6 Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy
	“Abandoned to the Devil’s Government”: Allegorical Geography Across the Crusoe Trilogy
	“Judge and Executioner”: Crusoe’s Embrace of Religious Coercion
	Part III: Holy War and Japan
	Works Cited
7 “Le coeur fou Robinsonne à travers les romans”: Crusoe’s Farther Adventures in the French Robinsonade
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	Works Cited
8 Krusoe Robinson’s Adventure: Technology of the Self and Double Consciousness in Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere
	Introduction
	National Allegory or Transcultural Tale
	Sentimentalism, Technology, and the Making of the Self
	Freitag’s Contribution or Double Consciousness
	Works Cited
9 Kicking Away the Gold Coins: Ōtsuka Hisao’s Reading of Robinson Crusoe and the “Human Archetype” of Post-war Japan
	Works Cited
10 Transforming and Translating the Novel Form: The Examples of Daniel Defoe and Lin Shu
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	Works Cited
11 The Boy and the Sea: Translating Robinson Crusoe in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
	A New Magazine for Korean Boys
	The Boy and the Sea
	Reforming East Asian Youth: Korean Transmutations
	Works Cited
12 “I Must Endure Courageously and Manfully”—Robinson Crusoe Translated by Minami Yōichirō and Its Influence on Later Translations in Post-war Japan
	Introduction
	Background, Context, and the Translator
	Minami’s Robinson Crusoe (1) Narrative Technique
	Minami’s Robinson Crusoe (2) Ideology and History
	Minami’s Influence on Later Renditions
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
13 Robinsonades in Japan: Colonial Fantasy, Survivalist Narrative and Homo Economicus
	“A Japanese Robinson Crusoe” in New York in the 1880s
	Crusoe and Japan’s Isolation Policy of Sakoku
	Robinson Crusoe in Japan, a Maritime Empire
	The Germany–Japan Alliance and Robinson Crusoe
	Post-War Robinson Crusoe for Young Readers
	“The Doomed and Living Robinson Crusoes”37
	“It Is Reasonable to Represent One Kind of Imprisonment by Another”45
	Robinson Crusoe in Japan’s Economic Bubble and Its Aftermath
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
14 Crusoe Comes to Caramoan: The Survival of American Cultural Imperialism in the Philippines
	Works Cited
Index