A Tempest by Aime Cesaire

  

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     welcome to my blog. here i would like write my understanding of the play 'A Tempest ' by Aime Cesaire which is deal by Expert speaker, Balaji Rangnathan in our department. This play we can widely discuss as a postcolonial study. so let's discuss...

# Brief Introduction of 'A Tempest' by Aime Cesaire

 Une Tempest is a 1969 play by Aime Cesaire. It is an adaption of Skakespeare's The Tempest from a postcolonial perspective. The play was first performed at the Festival d'Hammamet in tunisia under the direction of Jean-Marie Serreau. It later played in Avignon and Paris. Cesaire uses all of the characters from Shakespeare's version, but he specifies that Prospero is a white master, while Ariel is a mulatto and Caliban is a black slave. These characters are the focus of the play as Cesaire foregrounds issues of race,power, and decolonization.

# Post-colonial reading of The Tempest

    Post-colonial readings of The Tempest were inspired by the decolonisation movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Jyotsna Singh describes how these readings challenge more traditional interpretations of the play, questioning Prospero's ownership of the island and rethinking the role of Caliban

   Shakespeare was an export to the colonies of European literature and language as a part of their policy of cultural domination. On the other hand, it also enabled the colonized groups to revise and remake Shakespeare's works in ways which related to their own social conditions.

# Production of Aime Cesaire's Une Tempete

     Cesaire retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest celebrates Caliban's verbal attacks on Prospero and questions the latter's claims to the island. Such identifications with Caliban and an accompanying unease about his alien language typify numerous Latin American and Caribbean responses to the play in the wake of decolonisation in the 1960s. 

# The Tempest as an allegory of European discovery and colonisation

  

     Given these changing responses to Shakespeare's The Tempest in the former 'Third World', it is not surprising that by the 1980s, Anglo-American readings of the play began to join in such interrogations of Prospero's rule and in empathy for Caliban. In doing so, post-colonial criticism in the West was somewhat belated in acknowledging the significance of the play's historical background.

# A Call for Freedom: Aime Cesaire's A Tempest

      A postcolonial adaption of Shakespeare's The Tempest, African poet Aime Cesaire's play A Tempest overtly conveys his anti-colonism, exploring the relationship between Prospero the colonier and his colonial subjects Caliban and Ariel from the perspective of the colonized. Comparing the characterization and the colonizer/colonized relationship in the two plays, this paper illustrates that Aime Cesire's A Tempest is a delivery of his ideas of Negritude, a call for freedom and a reflection of the ways to the gain the freedom.

        African poet Aime Cesaire's play A Tempest, a postcolonial adaption of Shakespeare's The Tempest, explores the relationship between Prospero the colonizer and hiscolonial subjectsCaliban and Ariel from the perspective of the colonized. Cesaire overtly voices his politic views in A Tempest. His conception of Negritude is still the essence of this play. Focusing on the colonizer/colonized relationship, this paper tries to illustrate towards colonization and delivers his ideas of Negritude through Caliban and Ariel. Therefore, A Tempest is Cesaire's call for freedom and his ponderings on feasible ways laying ahead, which are interwoven in Caliban and Ariel's struggle for freedom.