%0 Journal Article
%T MILTON¡¯S PARADISE LOST AND A POSTCOLONIAL FALL
%A LUIZ FERNANDO FERREIRA DE S¨¢
%J Sign¨®tica
%D 2006
%I Universidade Federal de Goi¨¢s
%R 10.5216/sig.v18i1.3722
%X In John Milton¡¯s Paradise Lost epic and empire are dissociated. Contrary to many misreadings, this all-important work of the English Renaissance intersects postcolonial thinking in a number of ways. By using Gayatri Spivak¡¯s circuit of postcolonial theory and practice, this paper enacts a counterpointal (mis)reading of Milton¡¯s text: Paradise Lost may at last free its (post-)colonial (dis)content. Since every reading is a misreading, my (mis)reading of Milton¡¯s paradise is a mo(ve)ment of resistance against and intervention in a so-called grand narrative of power (Milton¡¯s epic) with a view to proposing a postcolonial conversation with this text.
%U http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/sig/article/view/3722