Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, cilt.38, ss.111-122, 2017 (ESCI)
The word "caniba" appeared in the literature after the beginning of the colonization of the New World. Christophe Columbus, explorer of this new continent called the Indians as "caniba" who became "cannibal" in the "Essays" of Montaigne. This word had a negative meaning in the language of Indians. William Shakespeare wrote a play entitled "The Tempest" where he named one of his main characters as Caliban which is a transformation of the word "Cannibal". Caliban, king of his island, lost his reign because of the arrival of Prospero, Duke of Milan to his land. This play entitled "The Tempest", written in 1611, is the last play of Shakespeare and he tells us the relation between master and slave, Prospero and Caliban. Aime Cesaire, a playwright of Martinique wrote a play entitled "A Tempest" which is an adaptation of "negro-theatre". Aime Cesaire wrote this play during the period of postcolonial and Caliban becomes the leader of the Blacks who were oppressed during the history. In this study, the aim is to insist on etymology of the word "caniba" and its appearances in the Shakespearean theater and Cesairian theater.