Tempest In The Caribbean

Shakespeare’s The Tempest has long been claimed by colonials and postcolonial thinkers alike as the dramatic work that most enables them to confront their entangled history, recognized as early modernity’s most extensive engagement with the vexing issues of colonialism—race, dispossession, language, European displacement and occupation, disregard for native culture. Tempest in the Caribbean reads some of the “classic” anticolonial texts—by Aimé Césaire, Roberto Fernández Retamar, George Lamming,