Konstrukcija drugosti u doba ranog kolonijalizma: Šekspirova „Bura“ i Defoov „Robinzon Kruso“
The Construction of Otherness in Early Colonial Era: Shakespeare’s Tempest and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Summary/Abstract: The paper inquires into the construction(s) of the ’other’ in the early colonial era, by means of an in-depth analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Based on the premise that literature can reflect social and geopolitical conditions, the paper seeks to examine certain practices linked to the process of “othering” as presented in the selected literary works, and thus contribute to a broader understanding of this process in general. A special attention is paid to the forms of “othering” identified by Gayatri Spivak (Spivak 1985), psychological projection of one’s undesirable traits onto the ‘others’, and their purported perversity, cannibalism, and savagery. It is also investigated whether language, religion and race affect the perception of otherness.

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