We All are Calibans: (Post)Colonial Visions of the Latin American Submission

Katarzyna Cholewińska

Abstract


In 1900 José Rodó’s Ariel, an essay inspired by William Shakespeare’ The Tempest, was published and gained a lot of recognition among Latin American intellectuals. In 1971 Roberto Fernández Retamar disagreed with Rodó in his essay titled Caliban. In Retamar’s opinion Latin America’s symbol is not associated with spirituality and culture Ariel but Caliban, a slave who in the end turns against his master. In this context Caliban became a very interesting figure for postcolonial writers, who related him with their concept of the Other. This new way of thinking about the relationship between Tempest’s characters had a great impact on the idea of what it means to be Latin American, postcolonial and subaltern.

 


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Ariel; Caliban; Latin American social and philosophical thought; José Rodó; Roberto Retamar; subalternity; postcolonialism; William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/i.2015.40.1.91
Date of publication: 2016-01-18 15:02:04
Date of submission: 2015-08-01 11:19:52


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