sh and introduces the Christian God to the ôsavage.ö Europeans and the ideology of colonialism encompassed a belief in destiny and the ability to control not only that destiny but the destiny of others, if need be, to fulfill it. As Mcinelly (p. 1) says of DefoeÆs protagonist, ôPsychologically, Robinson Crusoe shows that relations with an alien Other can hone an ego that can master both its own selfhood and the destiny of others.ö This belief is a cornerstone of European colonization and ethnocentrism.
If the negative impact of the ego associated with colonialism and European ethnocentrism that we see is lacking in CoetzeeÆs Foe, a work which includes the voices of Susan Barton and Friday, despite being mute, in addition to those of the
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