Which Caribbean writer used the metaphor of 'Prospero and Caliban' to analyze the power dynamics of colonial identity?
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Correct answer: George Lamming
In 'The Pleasures of Exile', George Lamming reinterprets Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. He views Caliban's mastery of Prospero's language not just as a tool for cursing, but as a symbolic reclamation of identity and agency through the colonizer's own tools.
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