Tempests after Shakespeare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

   PDF

2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 1-7

3. Calibanic Postcoloniality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10

      PDF

   2. The Deprivileging of Prospero

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 11-41

   3. The Rise of Caliban

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 43-80

   4. Caliban on the Edge

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 81-101

4. Miranda and Sycorax on the “Eve” of Postpatriarchy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-104

      PDF

   2. The Canadian Miranda and the Law of the Father

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 105-126

   3. Caribbean Increments to Miranda’s Story

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 127-154

   4. Including America: The Indian Maiden and the Bedizened Crone

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 155-176

5. The Return of Postmodern Prospero

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-179

      PDF

   2. The Pleasures of Intergalactic Exile

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 181-204

   3. The Other Niece of Utopia: Fantasy

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 205-220

   4. Sinister Variants on Enclosure

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 221-242

   5. Flaunting The Tempest: From “Insubstantial Pageant” to Celluloid Fresco

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 243-264

   6. Conclusion

      • Chantal Zabus

      Pages 265-268

6. Back Matter

   Pages 269-332

   PDF

Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century. Covering texts in three languages, from four continents and in the last four decades, this study imaginatively explores the collapse of empire and the emergence of independent nation-states; the advent of feminism and other sexual liberation movements that challenged patriarchy; and the varied critiques of representation that make up the 'postmodern condition'.

• 20th century
• postmodernism
• twentieth century
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

'A major work of scholarship that will need to be consulted by those in comparative literature and postcolonial studies as well as those in traditional areas of English literature scholarship. It is impressively thorough, up to date, yet disciplined, and filled with insight. ' - Bruce King

CHANTAL ZABUS is Professor of English Literature, Postcolonial and Women's Studies at the University of Paris XIII. She has widely published in the field of postcolonial studies and comparative literature. She is author of The African Palimpsest, and has edited Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature.

Policies and ethics