Foreword: The Progressive Pedagogies of the Modern Robinsonade

<p>[para. 1]: "Postcolonial critics (and before them James Joyce, who saw in Crusoe ‘the true symbol of British conquest’) have rightly made it impossible to study <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> without considering the colonial context of a European man’s conquest of an island and its neighbouring indigenous peoples. Likewise, the Robinsonade, the genre of island adventure fiction historically directed at young male readers that is <em>Robinson Crusoe</em>’s literary legacy, has long been implicated in both the imperialist project and in the promotion of decidedly masculine model of individualism."</p>