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1. A Transformative Journey of Creating
“Third space”: A Tempest in Postcolonial
India
Prepared by Tamsa Pandya
Department Of English, Sem-3
MKBU
Email id: tamsapandya25@gmail.com

2. Bird eye view,
A Tempest, Césaire explores
the relationship between
Prospero the colonizer and his
colonial subjects, and the play
focuses on the plight of Ariel
and Caliban in gaining their
freedom from Prospero and
his rule over the island.
The core elements Tempest is
the search for ‘black
subjectivity’, Freedom .

3. A key points in the transformative journey
 ‘Transculturation’
 Freedom and ‘Internal
Colonization’
 ‘black subjectivity’
 Power relations and
domination of Dalit in India
 ‘Third space’ theory
 Hybridity
 However, this tittle reflects
typical social relationships
in postcolonial India,
characterized by hierarchy
and separation, and it made
me curious to explore his
polemic and surrealistic text
A Tempest(1969), which is a
postcolonial revision of
William Shakespeare’s The
Tempest.

4. ‘Transculturation’
 ‘Transculturation’ is can be considered as
theoretical road map of the process due to the
culturally and socially fragmented . The intention
was to recodify the hegemonic position of the
postcolonial Caribbean text and to adjust it to the
contemporary socio-political culturation of India
in a non-canonical way, implying that various
forms of human suffering are reflected in the
artistic expression, which hence can be called
'politics in aesthetics’.

5. Count….
The history of European colonialism can be
described as a double-framed vision, as Homi K.
Bhabha has observed: ‘Colonial man as an object
of regulatory power, as the subject of racial,
cultural, national representation.’6
including India, have considered Shakespeare’s
The Tempests reading of colonial expansion, and
Prospero emerges as the archetypical paternal
figure of colonial domination and authority.

6. Power relations and domination of Dalit
in India
 This condition of ‘India’s
world 'is interpreted as
internal colonialism, locked in
‘the difference within’. The
parallel of ‘black subjectivity’,
as emerging from specific
power relations and forms of
domination, was found to be
the Dalit's that are outside the
Hindu caste system and still
segregated from the main
social body in India, justified
by conceptions of the ‘pure’
and ‘impure’.

7. Freedom and ‘Internal Colonization’
 Freedom’ is also the core of
Cesare's literary corpus in
general. As Robin D. G. Kelly
explains, ‘Cesare's life and
work demonstrate that poetry
can be the motor of political
imagination, a potent weapon
in any movement that claims
freedom as its primary
goal.’11
 colonialism and racism remain
fundamental problems in the
modern world, and that these
 ,issues are still at the core of
‘India’s world’.13
 This internal colonialism has
been possible due to the
complex political anatomy
characterizing Indian society,
with its strictly hierarchical
caste system based on
conceptions of pure and
impure.

8. Creating the ‘Third Space’
 Third Space
Theory explains the
uniqueness of each person,
actor or context as a
"hybrid"
 Which was subsequently
employed in linguistic and
in racial theory in the
nineteenth century.
 In Discourse of dissent: This
term “Third Space” deal with
two main elements:
 Those spaces who oppressed
plot their liberation.
 that space where oppressed
and oppressor are able to
come together, free (maybe
only momentarily) of
oppression itself, embodied in
their particularity

9. Hybridity
 Cultural hybridity in fact is a space of multi-vocal
narratives.
 In The Tempest, Prospero is the ruler of an island and
Caliban is his subject. However, the island originally
belonged to Sycorax, Caliban’s mother and
hereditarily he claims the ownership of it. Here,
Prospero’s role is of a victorious colonizer who
conquered territory and rules it while Caliban is a
subjugated native. However, he does not willingly
accept his servitude but constantly defies him, tries to
resist him.

10. Conclusion….
 ‘The act of interpretation is never simply an act of
communication between the I and the you designated in
the statement,’- Homi Bhabha
 But still, My reading is that the world of A Tempests is
all about transformations between self and
surroundings characterized by dominance, hegemony,
opposition, and negotiation.
 Along with the perspective of Indian hegemony, the
clear characterization is much more obscure
statement to serve….

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12. Thank you