Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century. Covering texts in three languages, from four continents and in the last four decades, this study imaginatively explores the collapse of empire and the emergence of independent nation-states; the advent of feminism and other sexual liberation movements that challenged patriarchy; and the varied critiques of representation that make up the 'postmodern condition'.

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

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial and Women's Studies at the University of Paris XIII. She the is author of The African Palimpsest, and has edited Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature and Changements au f?inin en Afrique noire.

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