La isla de Calibán
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2004.v61.i1.145Keywords:
Shakespeare, Calibán, Montaigne, Antonio de Esteva, abundance, natural man, good savage, colonial, post-colonial, Stephen Grinbaltt, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Renan, Aime CesarAbstract
Shakespeare's Tempest has been discussed in relation to the European colonial adventure in the New World as a representation of the native as "natural man." In the last two decades, the "post-colonial" reading of Tempest questions the central gaze (Prospero represents political and magic powers) that makes of Caliban a monster, an slave deprived of moral judgement. This article confronts that reading with the notion that Caliban is also a human creature that, thanks to language not only learns "to curse" but also to name, to recognize the abundance of nature in his native island. It moves, thus, from the "natural man" to the "good savage", a version favored by Montaigne and not ignored by Shakespeare.
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