6072X1 First Edition. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: 1989. 140 pages. Softcover. Good condition. There are some notes written in pencil. "Caliban" - the first and longest of the five essays in this book - has become a kind of manifesto for Latin American and Caribbean writeers; its central figure, the rude savage of Shakespeare's Tempest, becomes in Retamar's hands a powerful metaphor of their cultural situation - both in its marginality and its revolutionary potential. Retamar finds the literary and historic originsof Caliban in Columbus's Navigation Log Books, where the Carib Indian becomes a cannibal, a bestial human human being situated on the margins of civilization. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0816617430 $19.10USD
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