He became a prominent figure in the Negritude movement, which was dedicated to opposing colonial powers' political and cultural dominance and celebrating black identity.
This conclusion presents a relative contrast with Shakespeare's version, which implies that Prospero will leave the island with his daughter and the men who were shipwrecked there at the beginning of the play.
Her main point is that changing the narrative not only reduces the relative legitimacy of the non-European world, but furthermore weakens the response by the sheer need to use such source material.
There are nonetheless many who agree with Loomba, famously including Maryse Condé, who even go as far as to say the creation of a movement like Négritude, which this work would fall under, legitimizes many of the problematic ideas that colonialism itself created.
She laments that the need to facilitate an explicitly Black cultural movement really just affirms Western ideologies and prevents larger scale progress.
It came into existence at a time when numerous individuals of African lineage resided in French territories, enduring the ramifications of colonialism, which frequently led to the repression and obliteration of their cultural roots.
From its very beginning, Négritude was a global initiative, seeking to glorify black culture and identity, while confronting Western ideologies that had been employed to rationalize colonialism and enslavement.
[11] Une Tempête, a work filled with themes of colonization, subjugation, and defiance against unfair power structures, is viewed as an extension of this movement.
These exclamations by Caliban to Prospero are a nod to the quote from Death of a Salesman where Willy exclaims, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away— a man is not a piece of fruit!"