This document summarizes a paper submitted by Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai on the topic of Caliban as a subaltern character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. It discusses key concepts around the subaltern from thinkers like Antonio Gramsci and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It analyzes Aimé Césaire's postcolonial adaptation of The Tempest titled A Tempest, noting how Césaire portrays Caliban as a more powerful protagonist who resists Prospero's rule and expresses his desire for freedom and identity separate from his colonizer. The document concludes that Césaire gives voice to the marginalized Caliban and centers his perspective in the text.

1. Name : Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai
Roll no: 12
Paper: The Postcolonial literature
Topic: Caliban as a Subaltern character in A
Tempest.
Email id:- ak.gohel4433@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt.s.b.Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University

2. The Definition “ Subaltern”.
A subaltern is someone with a low
ranking in a social, political, or other
hierarchy. It can also mean someone
who has been marginalized or
oppressed.

3. Antonio Gramsci:
Subaltern, meaning ‘of inferior rank’, is a term
adopted by Antonio Gramsci to refer to those
groups in society who are subject to the hegemony
of the ruling classes. Subaltern classes may include
peasants, workers and other groups denied access
to ‘hegemonic’ power.

4. Gayatri Chakravoty Spivak
Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988) by Gayatri Spivak
relates to the manner in which western cultures
investigate other cultures. Spivak uses the example of
the Indian Sati practice of widow suicide, however the
main significance of "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988) by Gayatri Spivak relates
to the manner in which western cultures investigate other
cultures. Spivak uses the example of the Indian Sati practice
of widow suicide so however its the main significance of
"Can the Subaltern Speak?"

5. A Tempest was originally wrote in 1969 in French
by Amie Cesaire.
It is translated into English in 1985 by Richard
miller.
It is written as postcolonial response to ‘The
Tempest’ by Shakespeare.

6. CALIBAN
protagonist
black slave
more powerful in his struggle
against Prospero
disobedient
refuse to follow orders

7. This island's mine, by
Sycorax my mother,
Which thou tak'st from me.
When thou cam'st first,
Thou strok'st me and
mad'st much of me,
wouldst
give me

8. A TEMPEST
Raised his voice against his white master.
Prospero.
resistance against Prospero
his journey to gain freedom under Prospero ‘s
rule
expressed his thought more emotionally and
descriptive
represent as a colonized who suppressed by
the colonizer.
reveals deeper freedom and a greater
awareness of role of language in the process of
alienation and oppression
alienation from his own identity

9. he feels “insulted” when Prospero
utters his name.
he tells Prospero that do call me
“caliban“, but call me “X”.

10. Conclusion
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As we all know that caliban is a marginalized
character and some of the people like Prospero
rulings over him. so here we see that power is
played vital role in this play .The Ami cesaire give
voice of the marginalized and put center in the text.