Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Parrot Poll
- Journal:
- Humanimalia
- Year:
- 2020
- Authors:
- Borgards, Roland
- Species:
- bird
Abstract
The paper focuses on the famous scene in which Poll the parrot talks to Robinson Crusoe. It gives a close reading, revealing the ambivalence of violence and care in the relation between Robinson and Poll. It expands this ambivalence to a postcolonial approach, and it investigates — with and beyond Derrida — the poetological implications of the parrot's faculty of mimesis.
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