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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 



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