Oroonoko; Or, the Royal Slave (The Norton Library, N702) - Hardcover

Behn, Aphra; Introduction By Lore Metzger

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9780393007022: Oroonoko; Or, the Royal Slave (The Norton Library, N702)

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ISBN 10: 0393007022 ISBN 13: 9780393007022

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973

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This edition of Aphra Behn� s Oroonoko features a generous selection of thematically organized historical materials including explorers� descriptions of the � new world� of the Caribbean; planters� accounts of the sugar colonies; firsthand accounts of the slave trade from Dutch and English traders and abducted Africans; and early abolitionist publications by Europeans and former slaves. Excerpts from works by Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Daniel Defoe enrich students� understanding of the literary contexts for Behn� s portrayal of � blackness� in Oroonoko.

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About the Author:

Aphra Behn was a prolific Restoration-era playwright and one of Englands first professional women writers. In 1663, she visited a Venezuelan sugar colony and met a slave trader, and what she saw there formed the basis for what is now her most famous work Oroonoko. Behn was a Catholic supporter and a Tory, a bisexual and a political spy.

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