HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Prospero, Helen Mirren, Suniti Namjoshi
21 Aug 2018
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Today: in female hands: two living women who love india (and shakespeare!) adapt the. Caliban: using language to resist empire (prospero) in a tempest. Used it to make it speak from the aspect of the colonized. Last week: the tempest"s language was sued to recommend appropriation (kipling) Also spurs post-colonial re-appropriation by male writers after decolonization (fernandez retamar and cesaire) Adaptation - dynamic, fluid process of change - different from appropriation. Adapting it to the perspective of a young woman within the play. Could say that they are fighting for a sense of property due to the influence of. Caliban feels like property and is treated by property. How would this change if they weren"t in prospero"s shadow. I"m able to say clearly that when prospero said he took over an uninhabited island . It was my property (at least as much as it was anybody else"s . The sand does not just belong to you, it belongs to everyone.
