Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:42:41 -0600 From: rmohan-AT-haverford.edu (R. Mohan) Subject: Re: tempest revisited Abena Busia has a poem, in her collection _Testimonies of Exile_, that plays on Caliban's speech, "You taught me language and my profit on't it is I know how to curse." She also published an essay in _Cultural Critique_ (Winter 1989-1990) with the title, "Silencing Sycorax." The essay begins with The Tempest, but goes on to look at a number of other western texts that figure African women as enabling absences. But George Wolfe's production of the play ( which played in New York recently) is the most clever and insightful interpretation of the play that I know of. It takes into account recent postcolonial criticism and theory in its casting and staging. Raji Mohan --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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