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Aimé Césaire, who was born in French colony of Martinique, is an influential post-colonial writer. He created the term Négritude in his book Notes on a Return to the Land of My Birth, published in 1939, and has played an important role in Négritude, a movement which seeks to revive black cultural heritage and solidarity in a black identity. Césaire criticized colonial racism and rejected the negative images of blacks imposed by colonial discourse. He demystifies the premises of white civilization in his writings. A Tempest (1969), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is one of the most influential post-colonial rewritings of the cannon and reveals an effective post-colonial strategy to disrupt colonial discourses. Césaire presents Caliban as a subversive black who disrupts the white colonizer Prospero with a counter-discourse. Césaire rejects the binary structure in which black is defined by white, chaos by order,and savagery by civility, and finally demystifies Shakespeare’s allegorical play on colonialism. This paper discusses how Césaire exposes the post-colonial perspectives in A Tempest, with special reference to the relationship between Prospero and Caliban,and Caliban’s counter-discourse characterized by the appropriation and parody of Prospero’s language.
