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    Ala by Aeon OMeley THE MAG OFTHE MoDeRN ci. ‘Children's Lterature and Chidbood inte Late Egheeth Century ‘itcal Approacies to Cilren Leste ‘Seles Standing Order SBN 978-0-230-22786-6 (hardback) 97¥-0-230-227873(paperonc). 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For Nima, Saflanna, and Cyrus; if I were shipwrecked on 1a desert island I would want you there with me 2 Crusoe Comes Home: Robinsonades and Children’s Editions of Robinson Crusoe ‘within a decade or two ofthe intial pubitation of Robison Case, ‘tha already lent its name to an emerging gene, or sub-gente, of stores involving the shipwreck or other mlsadwectare and survival of Individuals or small group, ‘yplelly of Europeans, in remote locales: the robinsonade, Is mame coined by the Geman author Johann Gottfried Schnabel in the preface to his own robinaonade, Die Insel esenburg (sour land 1731), thls narative fox cae ‘generally to be astociated with tales of adventure and exploration, ‘Specially by the mid nineteenth century, wen it became a very ‘common typeof fiction fr boys. As ach, i has partcpated in what ‘hs conventionally been understood as the matculine pages and contradictions in ‘Tals representations of aborigioals, ‘which problematzez simple negative reading of her work as impe- ‘alot native’ Suzanne James, hik fi, suggests tht Teil i ‘almost progressive’ inher poruayal of indigenous people, atleast a ‘comparison to both her contemporaes, and the architects of' el crate policy of cultural genocide’ ofthe generation immediately ater ‘all's (12). As wel, Carole Gerson has pointed cut how the Sige of ‘the Native’ in Tral's work, and hall's own live selationships with aboriginal women in particl, ae inflected and complicated by gender ‘Powerful as whe but dsempowered as female... Til shae(s) with native women Some marginal space onthe oaks frontier culture (10) What has received les attention in critic of (Canadian Crass, nowever,'s that the book also presents ws th 3 - Insonade, it provides insights into the reproduction ofa distincty Bitish mode of domesic fe in the ‘wideres” of Canada that forms such an important pat of Canadlan Crsoes. Among the ems the Clrences bring with them from thelr old extate~ Roseland = to thelr new home are rose bushes. Hoses are, of couse, the national ‘lower of Britain and one ofits national emblems, and in the sol of the colonies they take on the symbolic weight of the Beith home fel "These... we will plant by the porch of our Canadian cot tage; and who Knows.» but we may, in couse of time, possess another Roselands, In the wilernes’ (27). Once the Claences have tstabished themselves inthe colonies, they send for their daughter "len, whose poor health required her to remain behind in England, ‘The reunion (an integral part of many roblnsonades) st ‘the home ofthat beloved family’ takes place, naturally enough in an fcono- graphically Brish and Vietran home’ setting: around the blaring fe in the cottage hearth (161), Connor Come ame 67 (Canadian Crass, ke so many other robinsonads, begins with some srt of dsuption ofthe domestic sphere and the nuclear fam- {iy Hector, bis ster Catharine, and thelr cousin Louis ~the titular CCusoes— leave the safety of thelr family home and become lost in the wildemes. Ther departure from thelr home comes, ke Rabson CCnuors, partly a an act of dscbedience; Louis ies to Catharine, saying her mother has given her pennission to otn the boy a they ook for ettle that have stayed. The anguish Lous feels at his act of disbedience and the anguish the children fel over the suffering ther parents must be enduring are recurrent features ofthe text, jst 1s Crusoe’ torment over his own disobedience to his father penme- ‘es the orginal and is amplified ints children's editions. ‘sts common for the genre, halls woblasonade also includes some tort ofreconstitation or reproduction of the disrupted mucest| ‘amily inthe ‘way space. In Canadian Cases the children reform ‘makeshift emily with the edition of a young aboriginal woman ‘whom Hector rescues and whom they name, rather unimagintivey, "Mndane’ At one point, Indiana's faces desebed as being ‘almost as ‘blank as that of an infant of a few weeks old at another isa ‘oy- ‘ous and innocent aa itie child (113,114) Indeed, the text refers { Indlana throughout ata child, despite er being the same age as (Catharine, thus repeating the pattem established in Defoe’ text and 4s chile’ editions, in which colony becomes ‘home; colonize ‘becomes ‘parent’ and aboriginals become ‘children “While Cathatine calls Indiana her ‘sister,’ she acts ke her mothes. 1m this role, she gladly takes on one of the standad maternal Cuties, the early and decidedly domestic eduction of the childlike Indians: How did the uvely fateligent Canadian gi... Jong to instrct ter Inlan fen, fo enlarge her min by pointing out sock things ‘0 her attention as she herself tok interest inl She would then ‘repeat the name of the object that she showed her several times ‘ver and by degres the young squaw learned the names of ll the familiar hosel objec. (113, my expass) ‘Cathatne isnot jst tesehing Indiana the basis ofthe English la ‘guage, but of English, female domesticity as wel, as the attention ‘aid to “familiar houschold objects’ suggest. Catharine also instructs (8 Chis tatu, Peper Cut, and Robison Cece Indiana inthe baie tenes of Chstianity, thus repeating aguin the pattem of eduction seen in the childrens veions of Robinson Gre. One of the most teing fetures of many robinsonades is the

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