Caliban's Daughter
The Tempest and the Teapot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11241809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Cliff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-9009 • E-ISSN: 1536-0334 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3346845 |
| OpenAlex | W2322465727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
These words, rousing and affirming, resonated through the imperial enclaves of my childhood. In the colonial girls' school I attended, we sang loudly, thinking the promise belonged to us. Who among us knew otherwise? Who among us knew the source of the song? Who knew it was a sea chantey, sung by sailors plowing the Atlantic during the Middle Passage, cutting south into the Caribbean on the Windward Passage? Who realized those syllables, those notes, so brilliantly enthusiastic, emphatically spreading across the wake of a ship weighed down by its cargo? Was there three-part harmony? The dimity of the ocean sparkling in the sunlight, the cargo was brought abovedecks to be fed and exercised. Those who refused were not allowed to refuse
Art · Daughter · Literature · Political science · Tempest · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cuban History and Society · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2019 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |