Caliban's Women
Keywords:
Sycorax, Caliban, wichcraft, decolonialityAbstract
This article seeks to position itself at the margin of the character of Calibán. This margin is the analytical space through which we can think of the silencing and tension around the female figures related to the Shakespearean character. Indeed, Latin American critical discourse seems to have left aside, as central elements of the anti-colonial proposal, what we could call “Caliban's women”. This text analyzes these figures and their critical functioning, seeking to give them a place from which the “system of meaning” (Wynter, S. 1990) that manifests itself through The Tempest becomes evident. In the following lines we will study the absent figure of “Caliban's wife”, and then underline the liberating and critical potential of his mother, Sycorax.
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