Can the Subaltern Reclaim the Father’s Tongue?: Shakespeare’s Caliban and Shelley's Creature
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Both Mary Shelley and William Shakespeare frame the problematic relationship between an oppressed creature and its oppressor within the context of language and, specifically, the creature’s ability to speak their “lapsed” father’s tongue and reclaim their identity in the process.
In this comparative reading, Livia Sacchetti discusses how the correlation between a father figure and an oppressor illuminates the power dynamic intrinsic to domination: one that imposes control through the systemic and epistemic establishment of superiority.
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2024
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Salem Press
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Language and identity, Literary analysis, Comparative literature
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Sacchetti, Livia. “Can the Subaltern Reclaim the Father’s Tongue?: Shakespeare’s Caliban and Shelley’s Creature.” In Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, edited by Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia, 59-76. Salem Press. 2024.