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RODRIGUEZ A, Ada Nelly. Discourse and Counter-Discourse: Caliban, Caliban. Resistance and Blackness Themes. Núcleo [online]. 2008, vol.20, n.25, pp.289-312. ISSN 0798-9784.

This paper shows a critical sociopolitical approach to “Prospero Caliban Cricket”, by John Agard and “Else the Isle with Calibans”, by Brian Aldiss. The analysis is based on the sociopolitical view of Dollimore (1984), Dollimore and Sinfield (1985) and Brannigan (1998), as well as on Jacques Derrida’s (1967) binary oppositions. The results lead to these conclusions: a) Caliban is a literary symbol which carries sociopolitical values during rewriting processes; b) Caliban is used to criticize the treatment given to minority racial groups; c) literature is some authors’ way of problematizing certain social assumptions through centuries, and d) literary writing shows social, political and cultural values.

Palavras-chave : discourse; blackness; Shakespeare, cultural materialism; binary oppositions.