The colonial fairytale doesn't hold up at all in our contemporary world. Crusoe, to put it bluntly, was a slave trader " but somehow it became a children's story: "Educationists agreed that the island narrative of Crusoe was an ideal text for teaching the virtues of self-reliance, careful management of resources and trust in the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM on April 21, 2019