Vom "Chindlifrässer"-Brunnen nach Tahiti. Lukas Hartmanns Roman Bis ans Ende der Meere und das Paradigma postkolonialer Literatur aus der Schweiz

In the last decade, colonial and postcolonial topics, as well as questions of multi-cultural change, have been discussed frequently in the public sphere in Switzerland. For contempo- rary Swiss authors, questions of otherness and of colonial violence are an important concern. Along with Martin R. Deans Meine Väter and Lukas Bärfuss’ Hundert Tage , Lukas Hartmanns Bis ans Ende der Meere is a significant example for the new postcolonial agenda in Swiss Literature. Hartmann’s protagonist is a fellow traveller of Captain Cooks second expedition to the South Sea; and his reports, as staged within Hartmann’s novel, give an impressive testimony of the predicaments of encounter in colonial situations.