HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Suniti Namjoshi, Julie Taymor, Sand Art And Play
Document Summary
The tempest"s language was used to recommend appropriation (kipling); also spurs post-colonial re-appropriation by male writers after decolonization (retamar and cesaire). These are hard lessons on both sides for male writers. Adaptations: suniti namjoshi snapshots of caliban and sycorax, julie taymor. More concrete example of adaptation: shakespeare begins with a storm and a lot of men on deck, taymor begins with miranda holding a melting sand castle before looking up at the storm. Sand castle is an image of power and patriarchal authority, and she takes it into her own hands and dissolves it into her own realm of imagination. This is a metaphor for how taymor is taking the properties of. Shakespeare"s play and making it into her own story. Namjoshi (snapshots): caliban and miranda are both young girls- my sand castle. no, mine! . Namjoshi (sycorax): im able to say clearly that when prospero said he took over an uninhabited islandhe lied.
