1. From the Monster to the Oppres
At first critics did not take the allusion of Americanization-Caliban plausible although they began to realize there was some links between Shakespeare's play and the travel literature of his day. ... This view became popular as the tension and resentment between Latin American countries and the United States grew. Yankee expansionism threatened its neighboring territories and made Latin American people uneasy. ... The basic identities of the two had persisted for a long time; however, some Latin-American writers began to repudiate these interpretations. The shift in Caliban's im...
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