Caliban and Other Essays

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by Roberto Fernandez Retamar,

Translated by Edward Baker,

Foreword by Fredric Jameson

University of Minnesota Press

Due/Published November 1989, pages, paper

ISBN 0816617430

Cultural and literary essays by a Cuban poet, essayist, and professor of philology who is known for his meticulous efforts to dismantle Eurocentric colonial and neocolonial thought. "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 Shakespeare's Tempest, becomes in Retamar's hands a powerful metaphor of their cultural situation--both in its marginality and its revolutionary potential.