The Third Time: Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World
摘要
Reveals how this disembodied procreation of Black flesh manifests in constructing Black beings as existing absent time and space. This reading of the play uses Afro-PessimismAfro-Pessimism to address postcolonial theory’s blind spots by repositioning the colonizer/subaltern relationship away from Prospero and Caliban and onto Prospero and Ariel. With this new alignment, we can begin to see how ShakespeareShakespeare, William’s The TempestShakespeare, William both engages with notions of human identity and meditates on the construction of human ontology as predicated on race.