https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=1087 As African colonies struggled for independence in the 1950s and 1960s and South Africa’s Apartheid regime hardened, the status of Shakespeare changed in Sub-Saharan Africa. African and, accessorily, Caribbean writers started identifying with Caliban, the savaged and deformed slave of The Tempest. I here trace this Calibanic genealogy, starting with the pathologization of Caliban by French ethnopsychiatrist D.O. Mannoni, through the insurrectional rise of Caliban and the corollary deprivileging of the Prospero-figure in key-texts by e.g. Ndabaningi Sithole, Nkem Nwankwo, Lemuel Johnson, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, but also Caribbean writers like Aimé Césaire, as Shakespeare also navigated through a Middle Passage of sorts. Shakespeare en devenir N°12 — 2017 fr mer., 13 sept. 2017 10:30:57 +0200 sam., 28 déc. 2019 14:32:59 +0100 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/shakespeare/index.php?id=1087 0