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This Essay traces the relation between discourse and power in white South African writer, J. M. Coetzee’s Foe. Coetzee rewrites the prototype of colonial discourse, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and parodies Roxana to concentrate the issue of narrative and power.
The central question “Who writes?” is taken up by counter-discourse Foe, it reflects the omplicity between narrative mode and political oppression(power). In Foe the issue of Friday silence is foregrounded in the text, Coetzee let female narrater Susan Barton, who was excluded in binson Crusoe, leads narrative.
But her narrative is controlled by Foe who is postmodern representation of 18C’s Daniel Defoe. Foe tries to restrict Susan’s narrative within his imperial plot. Finally Susan is entrapped in endless skepticism. It is closely related to Coetzee’s position in South Africa and his complicated
postcoloniality. (Sungkyunkwan University)