Literature and Decolonization: The Counter-colonial Discourse in the Caribbean Throughout Three Analysis of The Tempest

The Caribbean, as a socio-historical space marked internally by its own development and by the process of decolonization worldwide, it becomes one of the regions where counter-colonial and libertarian speech occurs most strongly from the end of the 19th century until the sixtieth decade of the of the twentieth century. However, when studying the asymmetric nature of your socio-historical becoming, it is observed that, although this counter-colonial discourse has a common basis, it is possible to detect differences in it, through three works of Caribbean literature: The Pleasures of Exile by George Lamming; A Tempest by Aimé Césaire and Caliban by Roberto Fernández Retamar. Several aspects of this exegesis can be pointed out: the relationship of the three writers with colonial languages; the use of symbolic characters - Caliban, Próspero and Ariel— and the socio-historical context in which the rewrites of The Tempest by William Shakespeare are framed.