Caliban in Exile

Caliban in Exile
Author: Margaret P. Joseph
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1992-05-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. The present study utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on the works of three major writers from the Caribbean islands: Jean Rhys, of British descent from Dominica; George Lamming, of African origin from Barbados; and Sam Selvon, of mixed Indian and Scottish heritage from Trinidad. The works chosen are set in England where the writers and their characters experience a double displacement, the alienation of the exiled in the country that once colonized their own islands. They are outsiders: unwelcome in Prospero's home country. The novels dramatize the theme of physical and psychological exile. Rhys's characters need mirrors in which they search for an assurance of identity; Lamming's are torn by the conflict inherent in the tragic sense of life; and Selvon's ironic language expresses the deepest sense of exile: exile from one's own self. Other Caribbean writers are included in the analysis, and the volume concludes by examining contemporary writers for whom Caliban's role in literature appears to be changing. Novelists like Earl Lovelace and Jamaica Kincaid demonstrate that it is possible to be an outsider in one's own country, and that issues of class can be as corrosive as issues of race. The focus has moved beyond physical exile, but the spirit and strength of Caliban continue to pervade the new literature. In giving expression to their anguish, both the earlier and new Caribbean writers have created highly interesting and successful fiction. This well crafted thematic study of Caribbean literature will be of great value to students, teachers, scholars, and readers of Third World, post-colonial, and multicultural literature.

The Pleasures of Exile

The Pleasures of Exile
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780472064663

An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

Hag-Seed

Hag-Seed
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Hogarth
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804141304

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe “Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post “A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

The Tempest

The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1720
Genre:
ISBN:

The Tempest

The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781442042247

Critical and historical notes accompany Shakespeare's play about a shipwrecked duke who learns to command the spirits.

The Transit of Empire

The Transit of Empire
Author: Jodi A. Byrd
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1452933170

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

The Tempest and Its Travels

The Tempest and Its Travels
Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781861890665

The Tempest and its Travels offers a new map of the play by means of an innovative collection of historical, critical, and creative texts and images.

Water with Berries

Water with Berries
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Caribbean Modern Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781845231675

Teeton lives multiple lives in England. One is with a bohemian group of Caribbean artist exiles; another is his curiously intimate mother-son relationship with his English landlady. He is aldo enmeshed in a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow a reactionary Caribbean government. Teeton keeps each aspect of his life in compartments but when the revolt begins, his once separate worlds begin to fuse together with disastrous results.

Natives of My Person

Natives of My Person
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780472064670

This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.

Daughters of Caliban

Daughters of Caliban
Author: Consuelo López Springfield
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253332493

Essays by leading Caribbean scholars explore the shifting boundaries between public and private life cross-culturally. Daughters of Caliban demonstrates how gender, race, ethnicity, and class shape human experience and interpersonal relationships in increasingly global societies. The volume examines Caribbean women and women's studies; women and work; women, law, and political change; women and health; and women and popular culture.