"Caliban, Why?: The 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana, C. L. R. James, and the Role of the Carribean Intellectual"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo803/
Author:
	Gonzalez Seligmann, Katerina.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2019
Publication Information:
	The Global South 13, no. 1 (46) (2019): 59–80.
Annotation:
	Shows how C. L. R. James's talk at the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana positioned "Caliban as a Black Marxist figure that embodies the commitment to intellectual self-destruction," which spawned a number of Caribbean Calibans, including Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête, (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite's poem "Caliban," Roberto Fernández Retamar's essay "Calibán: Apuntes sobre la cultura en nuestra América" (q.v. all). 
	English summary, 59.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Brathwaite, Islands
	Césaire, Une tempête d'aprés La tempête de Shakespeare: Adaptation pour un théâtre nègre
	Fernández Retamar, "Caliban: Notes towards a Discussion of Culture in Our America"
Persons:
	Césaire, Aimé; Fernàndez Retamar, Roberto; Brathwaite, Kamau; James, C. L. R.
Keywords:
	Cuba, Caribbean
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence, The Tempest
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo803