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Postcolonial Perspective In The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Relevance In Today’s Very Different World
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Postcolonial Perspective In The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Relevance In Today’s Very Different World
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
The twentieth century brought about a new form of understanding, producing and living art that has become a mean to react against the oppression that different groups suffered for centuries. Post-colonial criticism is an approach of analysis that questions racial identity and gender equity. This study investigates how Shakespeare’s plays relate to the social codes and the more recent history of the reception of Shakespearian drama within decolonisation movements. The Tempest by Shakespeare is defined as a postcolonial text because the colonised is represented in regarding cultural hybridity in which the Self and the Other enlace the colonial experience. Literature has naturally given a voice to these omitted groups and this play is thought to be an early post-colonial work by some scholars. Shakespeare had intended to criticise the European attack of the new lands to the West, and the theme of colonialism is outrightly presented in ...
