Head, Bessie | Gisela Feurle (essay date 1998)
Gisela Feurle (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Feurle, Gisela. “‘Welcome Robinson Crusoe, Welcome!’: The Story Re-Told by a Female Voice from Africa in Bessie Head's Botswana Village Tales.” In Across the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English, edited by Wolfgang Kloos, pp. 141–49. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.
[In the following essay, Feurle discusses parallels between Head's “The Wind and a Boy” and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.]
1 INTRODUCTION
I shall be dealing with my topic from two angles: first, by interpreting Bessie Head's story “The Wind and a Boy”1 and the intertextuality involved; secondly, by discussing some aspects of the reception of this text and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
My focus on reception is based on my teaching experience and (self-) observation. I read texts of African literature—among others short stories of Bessie...
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