Caliban and Other Essays - 9780816617432

Caliban and Other EssaysAuthor(s): Roberto Fernandez Retamar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816617432, 978-0816617432\nSynopsis\nRoberto Fernndez Retamar--poet, essayist, and professor of philology at the University of Havana--has long served as the Cuban Revolutions primary cultural and literary voice. An erudite and widely respected hispanist, Retamar is known for his meticulous efforts to dismantle Eurocentric colonial and neocolonial thought. Since its publication in Cuba in 1971, Caliban\""--the first and longest of the five essays in this book--has become a kind of manifesto for Latin American and Caribbean writers; its central figure, the rude savage of Shakespeares Tempest, becomes in Retamars hands a powerful metaphor of their cultural situation--both its marginality and its revolutionary potential.\n\nRetamar finds the literary and historic origins of Caliban in Columbuss Navig.