ENGL 412 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Oroonoko, Atlantic Slave Trade, Royal African Company
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In addition to filling in any gaps, feel free to add details for context or page numbers for reference. 1640- british civil war (beheading of charles i) Genre could fall under (which are all possible because piece is a hybrid : Behn the author does not equal behn the character. *move from an honor culture to a capitalistic one in surinam. Her body is seen as a vessel for the baby. Thomas southerne wondered why behn would put oroonoko in a novel, bury him in a novel . Behn talks about telling the story/hearing it and southerne says she was more animated telling the story than in writing it. Points to behn"s complicity in the erasure black people and their agency. Imoinda helps and then forces oroonoko to kill her because he is hesitant and does not want to. Oroonoko and imoinda are already married and have a child. Aboan takes on a much larger role.
