How can we describe civilizing mission in Foe?

M. Coetzee’s modern interpretation of the Robinson Crusoe story has a female protagonist, Susan Barton. Although there are numerous questions about her experiences and her narrative, elements of civilization as a white European mission are highlighted.
One of these involves Crusoe’s activities on the island when she arrives. Although he has no seeds to plant, he is intent on creating a sophisticated agricultural system complete with terraces. In contrast, Crusoe seems also to have lost his taste for civilization, as he does not wish to leave the island. Coetzee implies that he prefers to stay there because he believes himself the master, albeit of little.
Critiques of the civilizing mission once Susan and Friday arrive in England include Friday’s inability to work. Susan tries to help him return to Africa, as some free black people did in the 19th century; this plan is foiled because she suspects the ships are really slavers. The character of Friday likewise symbolizes and critiques civilization: for reasons unknown, his tongue has been cut out. Friday cannot speak for himself. He has lost his language, which symbolizes his culture, but has kept his life, to be lived out in cold, distant England. In Susan's correspondence with Foe, her attempts to stick to the truth (she maintains) clash with his desire to exoticize the others, such as with his demand that the island have cannibals.