Insulare Transzendenzen Die Robinsonade als Genre im Spagat: Isolationismen zwischen Utopie, Anti-Utopie und Persiflage

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 34, 33 - 46, 01.10.2015

Björn Hayer

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Insulare
Transzendenzen

Die Robinsonade als Genre im Spagat: Isolationismen zwischen Utopie,
Anti-Utopie und Persiflage    

Anahtar Kelimeler

Transzendenzen, Utopie

Insular Transcendences Managing the Balancing Act of the Robinsonade as a Genre: Isolationisms between Utopia, Dystopia and Persiflage

Öz

The Robinsonade's
genre-specific isolationism manifests a possibility space of social-utopian
provenance. Ideal social constructions can be simulated in the experimental
microcosm. In the center of the diachronic exegesis, that comprise positions from
the 18th to the 21st century, the male and female Robinson-figures stand as
mankind Representatives. They serve as a many-facetted projection of political
and social issues und crises of various eras (The European Enlightenment,
colonialism, modernism, the Cold War, postmodernism) in which the
cultural-pessimistic and -optimistic contrasts open the horizon of
possibilities of space and time.

To understand the different
lines of development of the genre and its visionary concept, aspects of Gender
and various human-nature-relationships are included in the analysis. By portraying the utopist
dimensions from true motifs of longing to dystopia and persiflage, the
contribution attempts to elicit a reasonable formation of categories. It is the aim of this article
to elaborate the respective distinctive features and demarcation paradigms.

This concerns the following
works: Daniel Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe”,
Joachim Heinrich Campe's Robinson der Jüngere”,
Gerhard Hauptmann's “Die Insel der Großen Mutter oder das Wunder von île
des Dames“, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's “Das Unternehmen der Wega”, Marlen Haushofer's
“Die Wand” and Christan Kracht's “Imperium”.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Robinsonade, Island motif, Utopia, Dystopia, Persiflage, Human-nature-relationship, Gender, Projection of political History

Kaynakça

• Macchia, Giovanni (1978): Il principe di Palagonia. Mostri, sogni, prodigi nelle metamorfosi di un personaggio, Mondadori, Milano.