 | Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair - 2005 - 686 pages
...revolts, for they are the people most likely to develop a real hatred of Europeans. Caliban's dictum: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is. I know how to curse. . . , though it over-simplifies the situation, is true in essence. It is not that Caliban has... | |
 | Norman Etherington - 2005 - 358 pages
...emergence of new identities among colonized peoples. Shakespeare's Caliban complained to Prospero that 'You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse'. Missionaries could hardly have anticipated all the ways that their translations would be employed,... | |
 | Gordon M. Sayre - 2006 - 368 pages
...Therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, who hadst Deserved more than a prison. Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (The Tempest act 1, scene 2, lines 351-64)... | |
 | Christopher J. Hall - 2005 - 376 pages
...extraordinary power of language, Caliban can in turn express his contempt for this new skill, responding: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning me your language! Caliban's development of speech has turned... | |
 | Nathaniel Mackey - 2005 - 386 pages
...anagrammatic invention, Caliban. Her "curses" thus recall Caliban's lines in The Tempest, spoken to Prospero: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." Brathwaite notes in X/Selfthat "Caliban has become an anti-colonial/ Third World symbol of... | |
 | Sharon Monteith - 2005 - 356 pages
...Caliban, born of the recognition of herself as the creation of the man's violent, sadistic desires. "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse," speaks Caliban in The Tempest (1.2.353— 67). This lesson is exemplified in Kelly's enraged... | |
 | John Brannigan - 2005 - 204 pages
...Caliban, born of the recognition of herself as the creation of the man's violent, sadistic desires. 'You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse', speaks Caliban in The Tempest (1.11.363-4). It is a lesson 22 Pat Barker exemplified in Kelly's... | |
 | Jean Elizabeth Howard, Marion F. O'Connor - 2005 - 312 pages
...predicated on their actual marginality in Shakespeare's text where departures from the colonialist rule - "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse" (I. ii. 365-6) - always lead back to the same colonialist destination: "I'll be wise hereafter."... | |
 | John Mowitt - 247 pages
...displace Rodo's appropriation of Ariel, he quotes Caliban's line from The Tempest: "You [Prospero] taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." 7. Eric Cheyfitz, in The Poetics of Imperialism, has pursued similar matters by approaching... | |
 | Dorothy J. Hale - 2005 - 841 pages
...Caliban - enslaved, robbed of his island, and taught the language by Prospero — rebukes him thus: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." ["C," pp. 28, 11] As we attempt to unlearn our so-called privilege as Ariel and "seek from... | |
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You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro. 
