![]() In her introduction, Janet Todd examines Aphra Behn’s views of slavery, colonization and politics, and her position as a professional woman writer in the Restoration. ![]() This new edition of Oroonoko is based on the first printed edition of 1688, and includes a chronology, bibliography and notes. The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality. ![]() Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author’s romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples ‘in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin’. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. 10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within two working days. Aphra Behn ’s tragic novella Oroonoko was published in 1688, shortly before her death. Oroonoko An Authoritative Text, Historical Backgrounds, Criticism - A Norton. Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel Oroonoko leaves many questions unanswered. ![]() When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Janet Todd explains how this extraordinary novella was shaped by the historical and political contexts and beliefs of Behns time. 'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues’ ![]()
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