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Behn Aphra - Oroonoko - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Oroonoko
Author(s): Behn Aphra, Tiffany Potter
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781554811625
Pages: 120 Pages, 5 Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/8/2020
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: 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.
Title: Oroonoko
Author(s): Behn Aphra, Tiffany Potter
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781554811625
Pages: 120 Pages, 5 Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/8/2020
Category: Classic Fiction
