Une Tempete (French Edition)
by Aime Cesaire
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Author: Aime CesaireEdition: Paperback
Audio: French (Unknown); French (Original Language); French (Published)
Published: 1997-02
ISBN: 2020314312
Number of pages: 92
Publisher: Points French
Book Reviews of Une Tempete (French Edition)
Book Review: Postcolonial take on Shakespeare's "Tempest"
Summary: 5 Stars
Cesaire's Une tempête takes the original and hardly well-pondered arguments that Shakespeare brought to his drama The Tempest, and turns them "inside out" as a protest of slavery, colonialism and oppression. The original Tempest was a conflict between the rational/logical and the instinctive/passionate in human nature extrapolated as a reflection on the new worlds being discovered in the sixteenth century. Cesaire does Shakespeare one better by making this interpretation of the original play a more complex story where colonialism comes to the forefront and Caliban becomes the troubled redeemer of the oppressed. Ariel, the voice of reason in the original, now is portrayed as a dutiful overseer of the colonialists. In short, the new roles inserted in the Shakespearean characters make this interpretation a must-read for those interested in the cultural and behavorial aspects of colonialism and postcolonialism. This work should have a critical (re)translation to English so it can enter in a dialogue with the four-centuries-old original work.
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