چکیده:
In Pantomime, Derek Walcott presents his unique reading of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a novel that forms part of Western cultural memory. What Walcott as a non-European writer does is entering the realm of European language and literature and deterritorializing it in order to express his indigenous collective concerns. Because Robinson Crusoe contains colonial values, Walcott sees it as a proper starting point for confronting the centralism of Western literature and producing anti-colonial values. The present article applies the concepts of “major literature,” “minor literature,” “deterritorialization,” and “becoming” by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to explore Walcott’s method of dissociation from European tradition and discourse and examine the attempt to fashion anti-colonial discourse in the play. This study finds its significance in its investigation into how a minor writer approaches major literature in order to appropriate tradition and consequently express marginalized indigenous values. These concerns are discussed in such areas as Walcott's overall strategy in rewriting canonical works, the possibility that metatheatre gives to the postcolonial Walcott to minoritize in major literature, the deconstruction of colonial concepts, and the fundamental change in meaning and status of the subaltern
خلاصه ماشینی:
The aforementioned concerns are discussed and investigated in areas such as Walcott’s overall strategy in rewriting classic literary works, the possibility that metatheater provides Walcott in the postcolonial context to minoritize in majority literature, the re-coding of colonial concepts, and a fundamental change in the meaning and position of the subordinate.
The present article considers Walcott’s Pantomime as minor literature 4 in the sense presented by Gilles Deleuze 5 and Felix Guattari 6 and focuses on how it confronts majority literature, 7 that is, Robinson Crusoe by Defoe and the tradition that places this work on the list of classic literary works.
The argument of this article is that the Crusoe-Friday relationship in Defoe’s work has turned into a metaphorical master-servant relationship in majority literature, and Walcott enters the realm of majority literature in Pantomime and offers a new possibility of it by rereading the aforementioned relationship.
Walcott, belonging to the Caribbean Sea region, where the colonial relationship between Crusoe and Friday in Robinson Crusoe takes place, is aware of the ideological position of Defoe’s novel in his geographical proximity and decides to create minority discourses in the realm of majority literature by writing an adapted work and narrating it in the same land.
Walcott places the definition of the master-servant relationship, which Defoe found in Robinson Crusoe in the majority literature, as a background to be able to create new possibilities of the aforementioned relationship through re-mediation and ultimately provide an anti-colonial response to the magnificent work before him.
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