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Oroonoko

Oroonoko

Behn, Aphra
Potter, Tiffany

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1554811627
ISBN13: 9781554811625
Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
Published: Jun 8 2020
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The best-known work by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery; Oroonoko tells of a noble African prince enslaved and taken to Surinam, where he leads a violent revolt of the enslaved. This edition offers helpful annotations, an informative introduction, and contextual materials situating Oroonoko in the context of seventeenth-century slavery and the colonization of Surinam. The early reception of Oroonoko is also documented.

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