ABSTRACT
This chapter explores about recent literary critical trends that emphasize the importance of material objects. It focuses the significance of an animal whose existence in the eighteenth century is dual, comestible and material, food and object the marine turtle. The chapter examines the metaphysical materiality of a creature that cultivated a complex, if not contradictory, position of exotic regularity within eighteenth-century gastronomic circles. It also explores the interminable multiplicity of the humble species Chelonioidea in order to probe the possibilities of recognizing comestibles as things with unique symbolic properties due to their being materially external and symbolically internal to human. Subject. The chapter aims to establish Robinson Crusoe as a text that demonstrates the distinct thingness of this edible good. Thus the novel Robinson Crusoe offers not a tale filled merely with the empty fetishes of a colonial market system but one concerned with notions of the material. He finds access to a providential kingdom beyond the borders of his homeland.
