Oroonoko Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave Or, the Royal Slave
by Aphra Behn
2020-07-03 00:55:11
Oroonoko Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave Or, the Royal Slave
by Aphra Behn
2020-07-03 00:55:11
An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tel...
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An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.
The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tale depicts the overthrow of a hero by a civilization that considers itself superior to him.
Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage.
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