Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction (Inglese)

The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare’s The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. This book utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on three major writers: Jean Rhys of Dominica, George Lamming of Barbados, and Sam Selvon of Trinidad. The novels chosen are set in England where the writers and their characters experience the alienation of the exiled–unwelcome in Prospero’s home country. Other Caribbean writers are included in the analysis, and the volume concludes by examining contemporary writers for whom Caliban’s role appears to be shifting beyond physical exile.

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