HUMAN 1B Lecture 9: HumCore Week 5-2
Document Summary
Rudyard kipling the white man"s burden (1899; philippines/english) Roberto retamar caliban (1971; cuba/spanish) Dominant european language: the other two lived elsewhere colonized subjects and do not come from shakespearean culture. While poem and essay is not same as the play, all of them are persuasive; uses language to persuade others. But that same language can be used against empire. Those who use language to promote with empire earn that it is vulnerable [prospero] Those who use language to undermine emprie learn that it can replicate the power structure it seems to challenge [caliban] The language of shakespeare became a partner to empire [kipling] But shakespeare could be used (reinterpreted) to critique empire, allowing subjects of empire to realize their power, control over own destiny [c saire] Over time, using shakespeare, real advocates of empire learned how vulnerable they were [=kipling] Over time, using shakespeare, their colonial subjects learned the limits of their power as well.
