Caliban's Voice: The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures

In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:

"...you taught me language, and my profit on’t

Is, I know how to curse. "

With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies. Can Caliban own Prospero’s language? Can he use it to do more than curse?

Caliban’s Voice examines the ways in which post-colonial literatures have transformed English to redefine what we understand to be ‘English Literature’. It investigates the importance of...