It was the first time for Caliban to be seen as a dispossessed native. ... 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. However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. ... This view was widely accepted; however, few critics of that day showed sympathy toward Native Americans because they still described Caliban as a w...

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Instead I employed a similar style of writing as that in Foundational Fictions: When History was romance in Latin America by Doris Sommer. ... Many writers, including myself, have referred to his work in ˜The Royal Commentaries' when scripting our own literature. ... He justifies the colonization and ˜civilization' of the Indians based on an extension of the Artistolean doctrine that some men were slaves by nature to include all the natives of the new world. ... It's no wonder that there was great rebellion and unrest in Peru at the time and a spillover of this is...

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