Question: Compare or contrast the ways in which roberto Fernandez Retamar and George Lamming construct national identity through the figure of Caliban. Use Shakespeare's "The Tempest" if you need to to discuss Caliban. In order to discuss the ways in which Retamar and Lamming have constructed a national identity through Caliban it is essential to discuss the cultural background of these writers. Retamar and Lamming are about as dissimilar as night and day, and this …showed first 75 words of 1800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1800 total…he can preserve that spirit of curiosity and concreteness, his generation will save West Indians and others the torture of adult indifference" (Lamming-16). To Lamming, this boy represents the future, and the good that may still come out of that which is Caliban. Bibliography: Works Cited: Lamming, George, The Pleasures of Exile, 1992, Michigan Retamar, Roberto Fernandez, Caliban, and Other Essays, 1989, Minnesota Shakespeare, William, The Tempest <Tab/><Tab/>