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In English today we discussed Aime Cesaire's A Tempest. It focuses more on postcolonialism and Caliban's role as a colonized subject. Strangely enough....Cesaire omits the attempted rape of Miranda by Caliban that sought to explain Cal's slave status in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The incident is nearly omitted entirely-Caliban neither confirms or denies it-but he laughingly admits he tried to rape Miranda and would have if Prospero had not stopped him in Shakespeare's text. It was interesting seeing how everything merged with my Africana Studies course that focuses on Colonialism and Independence, the ideas of Pan-Africanism and Negritude especially. I want to take Black Protest Thought next year.


NC Library
Looking at the white skeletal frames rising faint and ghostly from the
Chemical smelling shiny black page
Clapboard phantasms
Fantastic in rough wood, gray splinters, grass sharp and opaque
In black and white times
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I guess the reason I sometimes crave religious fanaticism
Is to convince myself I'm the antithesis of it
Finding freedom in a mental mindfuck corset with crosses instead of whalebone