Die Robinsonin - Celia Torke

English summary: Robinson Crusoe, as he is commonly known, is a man. He is a strong symbol of triumph of man over nature, over fear and failure, as well as of white male authority. In contrast, female Robinson figures have hardly ever been recognized. If at all, the robinsonetta has been regarded as other. She is an odd variation within a long and outstanding literary tradition. This book tries to show how inadequate this notion is from a postmodern perspective. Taking into account a great amount of Robinson tales focusing on female castaways, telling the Crusoe myth from a female point of view, the existing definition and understanding of the Robinson genre does not prove satisfactory any longer. In a conflicting interplay between a powerful literary tradition and strong innovative movements, between continuity and change, intertextual references and independent self-creation, the four rewritings of Gerhart Hauptmann, Muriel Spark, Marlen Haushofer and J.M. Coetzee ask us to see the genre from a new and different point of view and to undertake a self-critical revision of the Robinson-specific canon. German text. German description: Weibliche Robinsone, also Frauen in der Robinsonade, stellen zunachst eine Irritation dar. Den Robinson Crusoe kennt man als Mann und, philologisch betrachtet, als Modell der existenziellen Selbstbehauptung des neuzeitlichen Subjekts. Die Robinsonin gilt dagegen als Randerscheinung. Sie ist das >Anderemannlichen