Paraíso Perdido finds the scene: a post-colonial conversation
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2003v3p84Keywords:
John Milton, English poetry, PostcolonialismAbstract
In John Milton's Paraíso Perdido, epic and empire are dissociated. Contrary to many readings, this masterful text from the English Renaissance can intersect post-colonial thinking in many ways. Since every reading is also a slop, my (de) reading of Milton's paradise occurs as a mo (vi) resistance against, and intervention over, a supposed grand narrative of power (Milton's epic). I keep it as my main objectives: first, to provide a post-colonial conversation with this seventeenth-century English work and, second, to provide a post-colonial counter-scene for this text in the twenty-first century.References
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