ENGLISH 45B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oroonoko, Nationstates, Knitting
Document Summary
Published in 1682 with a preface by mayford who was a puritan minister notorious in the salem. These events happened to mary from february - april. We will interpret it as literary as in information, not historically or religiously. Founding text of captivity narrative genre (radical kind of exile and bondage) > emerges as indigenous american genre > records genuine experiences that can become fictionalized over time. Removes in the story are quit literally drastic dislocations from the familiar which is an inversion of epic traditions in western culture where one begins in exile then finds and claims future nation-states. > she has a falling out of domestic world and of civilization. The story begins in the middle of action like an epic and it conveys traumatic events. She describes her experience through her diet, simply putting things in her mouth for basic survival : 81 she eats horse-liver with blood and inserts a biblical quotation after.
