Indigo by Marina Warner

Indigo is a novel written by Marina Warner, published by Simon & Schuster in 1992 (ISBN 0-671-70156-8). It is a modernized and altered retelling of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Within the novel, Warner appropriates Shakespeare's original plot and characters to fit a dual reality, spanning the 17th and 20th Centuries, and the colonial sphere of the Caribbean alongside post-colonial London. She expands certain characters, for example, Sycorax, Shakespeare's dark witch, is given her own identity as indigo maker and village sage. The colonialist realities of 'discovery' and the conquering of 'new' lands are played out in the novel's first section. Finally, the characters of Miranda and Caliban (recreated as Dulé and George/Shaka) are unified in a shared acknowledgement of past colonial wrongs.

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Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner (18-Feb-1993) Paperback Paperback 6534679 $18.82 $4.06
[Indigo or Mapping the Waters] [By: MARINA WARNER] [January, 1993] Paperback 1076481 $22.92 $27.88 1993
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (The MIT Press) Paperback 196753 $2.99 $12.73 2011
The Indigo Girl: A Novel Paperback 14783 $9.85 $8.46 2018
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Indigo Hardcover 2831724 $27.01 $1.79 1992