Verhandlungen des Barbarischen in Inkle und Yariko-Adaptionen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert

  • Nimmt man heute einen Reiseführer für Barbados zur Hand, findet man darin auf den ersten Seiten – unter "Wissenswertes", "Geschichte im Überblick" oder einer ähnlichen Rubrik – regelmäßig auch Angaben zur Etymologie des Inselnamens. ...
  • The narrative of Inkle and Yarico, made popular by Richard Steele, went through numerous remakes and revamps in the 18th century – a phenomenon in need of explanation. The story of an English merchant who sells his indigenous rescuer and lover into slavery was brought to life by Salomon Gessner (amongst others) in a sequel which involved largely French but also German reworkings. This unusually productive adoption of ideas is crucially down to the complex negotiations of the barbaric, which in Steele's presentation can no longer guarantee a clear distinction between the West and the extra-European "other". Subsequent variations on this narrative regularly attempt to mitigate or to entirely allay this moment of irritation using various strategies.

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Author:Melanie Rohner
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-473765
ISBN:978-3-8498-1119-8
ISBN:3-8498-1119-0
ISSN:0179-3780
Parent Title (Multiple languages):Poetik und Rhetorik des Barbarischen = Poétique et rhétorique du barbare, Colloquium Helveticum ; 45, 2016
Publisher:Aisthesis Verlag
Place of publication:Bielefeld
Editor:Melanie Rohner, Markus Winkler
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:German
Year of Completion:2016
Year of first Publication:2016
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2018/08/30
GND Keyword:Barbar <Motiv>; Barbados; Inkle und Yariko; Steele, Richard; Edler Wilder; Zivilisation <Motiv>; Bodmer, Johann Jakob; Gessner, Salomon; Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott; Fremdheit <Motiv>; Literatur; Geschichte
Edition:[1. Auflage]
Page Number:14
First Page:51
Last Page:62
HeBIS-PPN:437260674
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht