1st Edition

Caliban's Voice The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures

By Bill Ashcroft Copyright 2009
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:        "...you taught me language, and my profit on’t         Is, I know how to curse. " With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies. Can Caliban own Prospero’s language? Can he use it to do more than curse?... Read more

Introduction  1. Prospero's Language, Caliban's Voice  2. Language, Learning and Power  3. Language and Race  4. Language and Place  5. Language and Identity  6. Language, Culture and Meaning: the Caribbean  7. Caliban’s Books – Orality and Writing  8. How Books Talk  9. Translation and Transformation  Bibliography

Biography

Bill Ashcroft is a founding exponent of post-colonial theory, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to examine systematically the field of post-colonial studies. He is author and co-author of twelve books including Post-Colonial Transformation and On Post-Colonial Futures. He is Chair of the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, on leave from the University of New South Wales.