{"product_id":"robinson-crusoe-9781632061195","title":"Robinson Crusoe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRestless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations by Eko and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree centuries after Daniel Defoe published \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized that still resound today. As celebrated Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid writes in her bold new introduction, “The vivid, vibrant, subtle, important role of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, with his triumph of individual resilience and ingenuity wrapped up in his European, which is to say white, identity, has played in the long, uninterrupted literature of European conquest of the rest of the world must not be dismissed or ignored or silenced.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Defoe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42981610487926,"sku":"9781632061195","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f79aab01-1c06-4bd3-8c3c-9bfcd79d7924.jpg?v=1768585696","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/robinson-crusoe-9781632061195","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}