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Aphra behn oroonoko full text5/11/2023 ![]() Exploring the implicit struggle that is staged between the two women over the possibilities of “reproducing” Oroonoko, it is suggested that Behn pits her miscegenated and marketable text against the reproductive capacities of Imoinda's body. The author compares the role played by Aphra Behn, as the white, educated, bourgeois narrator, with that played by Imoinda, Oroonoko's African bride and fellow slave in the Indian colony of Surinam. The “New World Woman” figures in this analysis as both a meta-critical abstraction against which Behn measures her text's achievement, and as a central character in the drama of the novel. ![]() It argues that Behn's ambivalent deployment of colonial rhetoric, particularly the discourses of sexual and racial difference, provides an important context for understanding her text's negotiation of generic categories such as romance, realism and True History, and her narrator's professions of textual fidelity and authority. Full Text: Aphra Behns Oroonoko (1688), an intensely stirring work, has captivated scholars of Restoration English literature in the last two decades with. ![]() ![]() This article examines the gendered and racialised dimensions of Aphra Behn's rhetorics of representation. For the modern reader and critic, a novel is a novel by virtue of its not being the story of real people but being. ![]()
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