Hamlet: The Eshu experience - Tapa blanda

Hamlet-The Eshu experience uses the image of the crossroads to construct the Caribbean as a divided space characterized by spiritual and psychic rupture. The existential questions Shakespeare’s play poses turn out to be more complex in the post-colonial situation. The question is not whether ‘‘to be or not to be’’ but‘‘how to be’’ in a society founded on fragmentation and trauma. Where and how, indeed, can Hamlet be? Giselle Rampaul Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago