Tempest
Shakespeare's the Tempest and Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent
Slavery
Slavery is one of the central themes in The Tempest. However, there are many different levels of slavery included other than the typical master and servant relationship Continue Reading...
Shakespeare's The Tempest and Chamoiseau's Solibo the Magnificent would seem to share little in common with one another. The former almost certainly takes place in the Mediterranean; the latter in the Caribbean. Yet both tragicomedies touch upon bot Continue Reading...
The different understandings of the world are indicative of differences in class just as they are a cause for racism, and again the characters of Solibo Magnificent have found a way to work in this system rather than resisting it.
In addition to sy Continue Reading...
He notes that "anticolonialist critics have sought to "demystify the national myths" of empire and to write an alternative history of the colonial encounter" by focusing on "the politics of the early modern English-Native American encounter" with an Continue Reading...