 | José David Saldívar - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 236 pages
...mestizo inhabitants of these same isles where Caliban lived, see with particular clarity [the following]: Prospero invaded the islands, killed our ancestors,...taught him his language to make himself understood. ... I know no other metaphor more expressive of our cultural situation, of our reality" (p- 24). Caliban,... | |
 | Amaryll Beatrice Chanady - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 304 pages
...important prerequisites for the constitution of the modern nation), Fernandez Retamar explains that Prospero invaded the islands, killed our ancestors,...language — today he has no other — to curse him ... I know no other metaphor more expressive of our cultural situation, of our reality. (14) Not only... | |
 | Susan Bennett - Historicism - 1996 - 216 pages
...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...use that same language — today he has no other. ... I know no other metaphor more expressive of our cultural situation, of our reality. (Roberto Fernandez... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...nations.' Thus, writing in 1971, Retamar declares Our symbol then is not Ariel . . . but rather Caliban. This is something that we, the mestizo inhabitants...him his language to make himself understood. What can Caliban do but use that same language - today he has no other - to curse him ... I know no other... | |
 | Susan Bennett - Art - 1996 - 212 pages
...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...but use that same language - today he has no other. ... I know no other metaphor more expressive of our cultural situation, of our reality. (Roberto Fernandez... | |
 | Allen Webb - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 264 pages
...national "Self." CHAPTER 3 Imagi/Native Nation The Tempest and the Modernization of Political Authority Prospero invaded the islands, killed our ancestors,...taught him his language to make himself understood. ... I know of no other metaphor more expressive of our cultural situation, of our reality. Roberto... | |
 | Carlos Hiraldo - Literary Collections - 2003 - 142 pages
...delineations. He identifies Latin Americans with Caliban, claiming that this association is something "the mestizo inhabitants of these same isles where...taught him his language to make himself understood" (14). For Retamar, himself not of Native American ancestry, any Latin American who attempts to valorize... | |
 | Silvia Federici - Social Science - 2004 - 286 pages
...particular clarity. Prospero invaded the islands, kitted our ancestors, enslaved Caliban and taught him the language to make himself understood. What else can Caliban do but use the same language — today he has no other — to curse him. ..? From Tupac Amaru. .. Toussaint-Louverture,... | |
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This is something that we, the mestizo inhabitants of these same isles where Caliban lived, see with particular clarity: Prospero invaded the islands, killed our ancestors, enslaved Caliban, and taught him his language to make himself understood. 