10. Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular Culture

Studies in the English‐language Robinsonade at the Crusoe tercentenary

“…The three TV Robinsonades mentioned were earlier also discussed by Mayer (2011), who argued for their ideological double‐voicedness, showing how they ‘do political work in the society for which they are produced, gesturing towards undermining socially and politically sanctioned practices and beliefs before finally endorsing the status quo’ (p. 63). More recently, Gilligan's Island has been revisited by Kinane (2020), who compared its meanings with a postmodernist novel based on the series— Gilligan's Wake (2003).…”