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Archipelagic American Studies
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Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7320-9
Publication date:
2017
Book Chapter
The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre
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Published:May 2017
Using Édouard Glissant’s assertion that the imagination is shaped by and expresses itself through the materiality of space, this essay focuses on a geopolitics of the figure of Caliban in Antillean theatre. No longer the incarnation of nativist claims of sovereignty, Caliban is precariously repositioned on the shoreline, which may or may not open him to new forms of dwelling and resistance. A spatial restaging of Caliban traces a trajectory from the frustrated rebel who winds up on the porous ever-shifting beach in Aimé Césaire’s psychodrama to the “marroneur” Toussaint, who liberates himself by transforming his prison into archipelagic space....
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