Description
The article engages with the ‘problem’ of the international in terms of the relationship between the universal/particular, time/space and self/other. One way in which these aporias have been addressed has been through strategies of recovery. The article focuses on interrogating these strategies of recovery through the re-writings of the relationship between Caliban and Prospero from Shakespeare’s play the Tempest. The article will focus on re-writings of the Tempest by Aime Cesaire, George Lamming and Kamau Brathwaite underlining how the figurations of Caliban and Caliban’s relationship with Prospero functions as different interpretations of recovery and making Caliban present in the story. The article through these re-writings aims to explore the different strategies of recovery and which aporias the different strategies engage with and to what extent.
