Caliban - Kamau Brathwaite
TEXTBOOK MARGIN NOTES: Caliban is a fictional native of Bermuda; he became Prospero's slave when he allegedly attempted to rape Miranda (Prospero's daughter) (also Prospero's student, along with Caliban). Dominique-Octave Mannoni proposed a theory that colonizers are power-hungry and evading issues and the colonized have a dependancy complex based on Shakespeare's Tempest , in his book titled Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization . Fanon challenged this position. Brathwaite's Caliban is split into three sections: I: Caribbean as a place where people are cut off (alienated from their environment) II: (period of transition) Importance of cultural elements to make sense of trauma of past III: (climax) (reemergence of limbo as tourist attraction and) Reintegration of Caribbean into society Language itself can both record cultural memory and resist power structures, as in Letter SycoraX. Links: Kamau Brathwaite Wiki Reading al...