HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Thrice
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I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island (53) Three islands (decolonizing), three answers as history changes the scene. Rudyard kipling the white man"s burden , roberto fernandez retamar, Caliban"s parting words: ay that i will, and i"ll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace. What a thrice double ass was i to take this drunkard for a god and worship this dull fool! (86) Prospero is humanized by the end of the play (what is a human being?-human beings are incomplete, we complete ourselves through language and dreams and one another) In shakespeare: language is the partner to empire. But that same language can be used against empire. Those who use language to promote with empire learn that it is vulnerable. Those who use language to undermine empire learn that it can replicate the power structure it seems to challenge.
