UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Humanities and Education » English » EN0300 » OROONOKO: THE ROYAL SLAVE
Model: EN0300
ISBN: 0393312054
Authors: BEHN, APHRA
Publishers: KELVIN VAN HASSELT PUB.
Price: $657.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
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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.