J. M. Coetzee's Foe: Giving voice to silenced Susan and Friday

J.M. Coetzee offers in Foe a questioning of the colonialist and patriarchal realities and their effects on individuals, fighting back against these constructed realities as a postmodernist, postcolonial and feminist questioning. Coetzee's Foe is written largely as a reworking of Robinson Crusoe with its deliberate aim of rejecting the conventional narrative form of Defoe's novel. Robinson Crusoe is accepted to be the progenitor colonialist novel written in the eighteenth century silencing the Other.Coetzee's novel tries to decompose the monologic discourse which denies the existence of other voicesby rewriting Defoe's well-known text which Coetzee's novel is in direct dialogue with using a marginalized female narrator, Susan Barton as a mouthpiece.The aim of this thesis is to study J.M. Coetzee's Foe as a postmodernist novel which problematizes the concept of representation and which gives voice to the silenced other by re-telling the story from the mouth of his female narrator Susan Barton and tongueless Friday.