Abstract
During the last four decades the postcoloniality in Shakespeare’s The Tempest has been investigated and discussed. Marina Warner’s novel Indigo, published in 1992, is a reworking of the play in which feminine roles are enhanced and analysed in a multiple narrative comprehending the 17th century invasion of a Caribbean island and the fortune of the invaders’ descendents in the 20th century. In contrast to the English colonizers stance of empire building, the two female characters of the novel, Sycorax and Serafine, endeavour to build communities. In this feminine version of The Tempest, Warner shows an alternative way to replace patriarchy and establish the basic tenets of a more-enduring and equalitarian society
Highlights
During the last four decades the postcoloniality in Shakespeare’s The Tempest has been investigated and discussed
We have focused on the novel Indigo or, Mapping the Waters, by Marina Warner (1992), as a rewriting of The Tempest (1611), precisely with regard to the Sycorax-Serafine complex
Influenced by Peter Hulme’s Colonial Encounters, the author reworks the general contents of the Shakespearean play and constructs an interlink between two narratives, a 17th century adventure and colonialist story and another one commuting between the same Caribbean island and London in the 20th century
Summary
Marina Warner, born in England in 1946, is a novelist and literary critic, with books ranging from fairy tales and popular culture to cinema and hagiography. Other works include The Dragon Empress (1972), Queen Victoria Sketchbook (1980), Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism (1981) Monuments and Maidens (1985); Managing Monsters (1994) and From the Beast to the Blond: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1994) Her latest critical work (her eighth) is No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998) on the exploitation of terror and the different strategies employed by people to cope with it. Warner taught at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, University of Ulster, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Stanford University. She read the Reith Lectures on BBC which have since been published in the United States as Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More... The Brazilian Companhia das Letras published Da fera à loira: sobre contos de fadas e seus narradores in 1999
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