#proscali

[veil-of-exordia]

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Fandom: The Tempest - Shakespeare

Relationships: Caliban & Prospero

Characters: Prospero (The Tempest), Caliban (The Tempest)

Word count: 1151

Summary:

Academic essay on Act I, Scene 2.

Despite being ostensibly master and slave, Prospero and Caliban subvert the differences and hierarchies that are presumed and demanded by the colonialist-antiblack framework of slavery. Close examination of their exchange in lines 307-375, in fact, leads to doubt of the very foundations of the European-hegemonic reasoning used to justify slavery. ​

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My proscali essay is OUT as promised! It's the first time I'm posting strictly academic writing to AO3, heh, but this is a good deal more polished than my usual Tumblr analyses, so why not?

Tagging some people who seem to have been interested:

@hamletkin @lizardrosen