Tempests after Shakespeare

CHANTAL ZABUS is Professor of English Literature, Postcolonial and Women's Studies at the University of Paris XIII. She has widely published in the field of postcolonial studies and comparative literature. She is author of The African Palimpsest, and has edited Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature.

• Introduction PART I: CALIBANIC POST-COLONIALITY The Deprivileging of Prospero The Rise of Caliban Caliban on the Edge PART II: MIRANDA AND SYCORAX ON THE 'EVE' OF POSTPATRIARCHY The Canadian Miranda and the Law of the Father Caribbean Increments to Miranda's Story Including America: The Indian Maiden and the Bedizened Crone PART III: THE RETURN OF POSTMODERN PROSPERO The Pleasures of Intergalactic Exile The Other Niece of Utopia: Fantasy Sinister Variants on Enclosure Flaunting The Tempest: From 'Insubstantial Pageant' To Celluloid Fresco Conclusion: The Selfish Game

'A major work of scholarship that will need to be consulted by those in comparative literature and postcolonial studies as well as those in traditional areas of English literature scholarship. It is impressively thorough, up to date, yet disciplined, and filled with insight. ' - Bruce King