...Cesaire before him, Fernandez Retamar claims that Caliban and not Prospero or Ariel is "our symbol," for "we, the mestizo inhabitants of these same isles where Caliban lived, see with particular clarity [the following]: Prospero invaded the islands, killed our ancestors, enslaved Caliban, and taught him...

...text attracted so much attention in the construction of an anti-colonial body. THE ANTI-COLONIAL BODY [W]e. the mestizo inhabitants of these same isles where Caliban lived, see with partieular clarity: Prospero invaded the islands, killed our ancestors, enslaved Caliban, and taught...

...adopts Caliban for what he represents to the observer, not for what Shakespeare may have had in mind". is something that we, the mestizo inhabitants of these...where Caliban lived, see with particular clarity" (14). As a "counter-canonical" essay, then, "Caliban" has to be analyzed in a dual perspective: not...

...(1989: 5-21). "O ur symbol is not A rid. . . but rather Caliban. This is something that we, the mestiz o inhabitants of these same isles where Caliban lived,...particular clarity. Prospero invaded the islands, kitted our ancestors, enslaved Caliban and taught him the language to make himself understood. What...

...white to create a New World self.11 As Retamar proclaimed in 1971: Our symbol then ... is Caliban. This is something that we, the mestizo inhabitants...where Caliban lived, see with particular clarity. I know no other metaphor more expressive of our cultural situation, of our reality. . . . What is our...