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	Fiction: Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave
		Oroonoko was no sooner returned from this last conquest, and received at court with all the joy and magnificence that could be expressed to a young victor, who was not only returned triumphant, but beloved like a deity, than there arrived in the port an English ship.
		Oroonoko then replied, he was very sorry to hear that the captain pretended to the knowledge and worship of any gods, who had taught him no better principles than not to credit as he would be credited.
		Oroonoko, who was too generous not to give credit to his words, showed himself to his people, who were transported with excess of joy at the sight of their darling prince; falling at his feet, and kissing and embracing him; believing, as some divine oracle, all he assured 'em.
	fiction.eserver.org /novels/oroonoko (8465 words)

	Fiction: Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave
		Oroonoko was no sooner returned from this last conquest, and received at court with all the joy and magnificence that could be expressed to a young victor, who was not only returned triumphant, but beloved like a deity, than there arrived in the port an English ship.
		Oroonoko then replied, he was very sorry to hear that the captain pretended to the knowledge and worship of any gods, who had taught him no better principles than not to credit as he would be credited.
		Oroonoko, who was too generous not to give credit to his words, showed himself to his people, who were transported with excess of joy at the sight of their darling prince; falling at his feet, and kissing and embracing him; believing, as some divine oracle, all he assured 'em.
	eserver.org /fiction/oroonoko (8465 words)

	Oroonoko
		Oroonoko is found by her body and is kept from killing himself, only to be publically executed.
		Oroonoko is a king, and he is a king whether African or European, and the novel's regicide is devastating to the colony.
		Oroonoko was a very successful novel, and the story was used by Thomas Southerne for a tragedy entitled Oroonoko: A Tragedy, which was staged in 1695.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/o/or/oroonoko.html (568 words)

	Lynch, Bibliography for Behn's Oroonoko
		Her analysis of Oroonoko as a political roman à clef is cursory.
		He denies that the Oroonoko is a pure abolitionist tract or a representation of the noble savage; Oroonoko himself is thoroughly European in character.
		A snide glance at Oroonoko in the tradition of the noble savage; Behn's contribution is sentimentalism.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Biblio/behn.html (2868 words)

	Warren Wilson College
		Oroonoko is a relatively short novel whose full title is Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave.
		Oroonoko's love forbids him from killing his dear one and compels him to protect her, but when he stabs her, she dies with a smile on her face.
		Oroonoko is found mourning by her body and is kept from killing himself, only to be publicly executed.
	www.warren-wilson.edu /~Theatre/Oroonoko_main_page.shtml (391 words)

	JATW Panels
		Despite the author's modest contention that she wrote the short novel in the space of a few hours, Oroonoko freely lends itself to a vast array of criticial readings and definitions which analyze the categories of race, class, and gender within a matrix of economic and cultural concerns.
		Through the narrative structure of Oroonoko, Behn identifies the royal slaves with Western economic practices and erotic fantasy where her treatment of the African voice remains, like the African body, an economic property to be owned and traded.
		Oroonoko is described as a visual and cultural oddity, a de-Africanized slave indelibly linked between the contradictory poles of the colonial "self" and the foreign "other," while Behn's description of Imoinda clearly posits the African female as an erotic entity of European sexual fantasy.
	www.unc.edu /~ottotwo/williams.html (580 words)

	(Re)Textualizing the Female Body: Maternity and the Negotiations of Power in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
		Imoinda, and Oroonoko, understand fully the implications of her maternity within the state of enslavement: "In a very short time after she conceiv'd with Child; which made Caesar [Oroonoko] even adore her, knowing he was the last of his Great Race" (40).
		The mother tiger which Oroonoko kills only after snatching away her young cub for the entertainment of the female narrator and other white colonists signifies the maternal loss of Imoinda and its implications for the wider community of Africans in slavery ; the very implications the narrator chooses to passively sidestep.
		As Oroonoko is brutally dismembered at the close of the narrative, the narrator's "mother and sister were by him all the while, but not suffered to save him; so rude and wild were the rabble" (64).
	www.womenwriters.net /archives/klein0200.htm (6942 words)

	PlanetPapers - Oroonoko - the narrative shifts
		Though in Oroonoko, both first and third person narration modes are necessary to complete the story, the third person narration serves only the purpose of exposing relevant details for which Behn was absent, and is less desirable than the first person narration.
		This intense attention to detail is further shown in her description of Oroonoko’s slaughter of the tiger.
		Without explicity stating the emotion, Behn is able to bring the fearlessness of Oroonoko to life because she was actually present to see that look in his eyes.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4642.php (966 words)

	Behn Oroonoko Essays - European Colonialism and Imperialism in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
		Oroonoko's introduction acquaints us with a person so refined in every way as to be almost god-like.
		After Oroonoko becomes sold as a slave, for example, he becomes a friend of the narrator and the overseer in the New World through virtue of his obvious quality.
		Oroonoko the man has a kind of bearing which distinguishes himself from all ordinary men.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=6890 (863 words)

	Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave
		Oroonoko is a short novel written by English author Aphra Behn (1640-89) and published in 1688.
		Oroonoko soon finds out that Imoinda is a slave on the same plantation, but her slave name is now Clemene.
		Yet, the power she held over Oroonoko was so strong that this most powerful warrior of the land was reduced to a blubbering idiot when he lost her.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/oroonoko.html (1969 words)

	Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
		Oroonoko, a slave-owner himself, despairs and nearly is defeated in battle by Jamoan's army, but he is roused to martial prowess by the pleas of his own troops.
		This nostalgic imprint of the old regime's passing might show us a profound split in English culture caused by the civil war's aftermath, but it also demonstrates some crucial social characteristics of minds we might call "modern" in their attitude toward novelty, fashion, and other forms of change.
		Oroonoko gives his fellow slaves an impassioned speech comparing tolerable and intolerable forms of slavery (2205-6).
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/aphra_behn_oroonoko.htm (1688 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Oroonoko
		Scholars also cannot determine with certainty whether the narrator of Oroonoko is intended to represent Aphra Behn and whether the narrative is intended to be telling the truth.
		Oroonoko is notable for its groundbreaking depiction of the horrors of slavery, and it has come to be called one of literature’s first abolitionist tracts.
		In an effort to regain his lost honor, Oroonoko feels compelled to take the life of his beloved wife Imoinda, who is carrying the child he would not have raised as a slave.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/oroonoko/about.html (602 words)

	Picaresque polemic \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		For customary reasons, Imoinda cannot thereafter become the wife of Oroonoko, but they don't forget each other, and during a ceremonial dance she stumbles into his arms, arousing the suspicions of the grandfather, who later that evening discovers the two having a tryst.
		Imoinda and Oroonoko conform to standard European ideals of male and female virtue - she is beautiful, loving and submissive, and he is doughty, handsome and virtuous.
		She also alludes to the cession of Surinam to the Dutch - Oroonoko's story takes place entirely within a recognisable historical context - but Oroonoko remains a romantic hero; his uniqueness is too great and his fate too dramatic for the reader to feel that she comes to know or understand him.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,,1754157,00.html (1219 words)

	Amazon.com: Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (Bedford Cultural Editions): Books: Aphra Behn,Catherine Gallagher (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This edition of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko features a generous selection of thematically organized historical materials including explorers’ descriptions of the “new world” of the Caribbean; planters’ accounts of the sugar colonies; firsthand accounts of the slave trade from Dutch and English traders and abducted Africans; and early abolitionist publications by Europeans and former slaves.
		Oroonoko himself is even based upon a real prince that Behn had met from Surinam.
		The slave-prince, Oroonoko, is a hero, and his main quest is to find the love of his life, Imoinda.
	www.amazon.com /Oroonoko-Royal-Bedford-Cultural-Editions/dp/0312108133 (1538 words)

	Oroonoko Summary
		The critic claims that Imoinda's whiteness is used to suppress the facts of racial and gender conflict and to confer racial authority on white women.
		Oroonoko is an intriguing and epic story of a young African prince who gets tricked into becoming a slave for a workers plantation written by the first professional woman author, Aphra Behn.
		Oroonoko is a wonderful story that is narrated beautifully, but when one reads it, you must be aware of the first hand perspective and the bias because the events that happen could be exaggerated or understated by the narrator.
	www.bookrags.com /Oroonoko (284 words)

	Best Prices on Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (Bedford Cultural Editions) at iMegaDeals.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oroonoko is not a tidy book, but it is an amazing book.
		The slave-prince, Oroonoko, is a hero, and his main...
		Oroonoko is an African prince, in love with the beautiful Imoinda.
	www.imegadeals.com /a/asinsearch_0312108133.html (338 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave
		The extended title of Aphra Behn’s famous short story or novel, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, A True History, immediately indicates that the author intended the narrative to be understood as a factual account, a history, rather than a fiction.
		Although there is a distinct possibility that Behn was indeed a visitor to Surinam in the early 1660s, this does not necessarily render Oroonoko an autobiography or suggest that she actually was acquainted with a wrongly enslaved African prince.
		Whilst the setting of the novel, the detailed descriptions of the Carib Indians and mention of contemporary figures, such as Trefry and Byam, involved in the colony suggests a certain familiarity with Surinam, the plot of the novel was not entirely original.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2995 (490 words)

	Reviews of 'Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (Bedford Cultural Editions)'
		Oroonoko is not a tidy book, but it is an amazing book.
		The slave-prince, Oroonoko, is a hero, and his main quest is to find the love of his life, Imoinda.
		Oroonoko himself is even based upon a real prince that Behn had met from Surinam.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0312108133.html (681 words)

	PENGUIN CLASSICS OROONOKO THE ROVER AND OTHER WORKS - Aphra Behn - Penguin Books
		When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam.
		Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction.
		The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140433388,00.html (271 words)

	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
		Behn's story of Oroonoko, an African man who starts out as a prince and ends his life as a slave.
		As her racial and sexual identity are reconstructed in whiteness, Behn's fl Imoinda becomes an early example of the enforced invisibility of the fl female subject in the Americas' dominant cultural discourse.
		"Despite the narrator's critical treatment of slavery, Oroonoko is an exemplary text for a study of racism at the beginning of novelistic discourse; it cannot easily be dismissed as merely the work of a racist indivual, and as such can be examined for more far-reaching effects of race within culture.
	www.ipl.org /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=oro-98 (412 words)

	Oroonoko
		Oroonoko can be the hero because he can reconcile both European culture and primitive nature.
		First paradox: while Oroonoko's greatness seems to challenge Western racist presumptions of superiority, the more that Oroonoko is both utterly unique and "just like us", the less his nobility overcomes the Western presumption of superiority.
		Oroonoko is an English gentleman in flface, and Imoinda is a refined white European.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/warner/courses/w00/engl30/Oroon1.html (3306 words)

	Reviews of 'Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)'
		OROONOKO is the story of a Coromantien (Ghanaian) prince who, through his courage, integrity and physical beauty, wins the respect of virtually everyone with whom he comes into contact, including the prisoners he takes in battle and sells into slavery and the white slave traders who eventually take Oroonoko captive.
		Once he is sold into slavery in the then-English colony of Surinam, the man who purchases him continually promises Oroonoko his freedom once the Governor comes to the plantation.
		In his humilation, bitterness and desperation, Oroonoko comes up with a three-step plan (involving unspeakable acts) to achieve freedom for himself and his wife.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0140439889.html (603 words)

	Oroonoko Reading Questions (Norton7/NCE)
		The best beginning procedure is always to read the assignment all the way through, keeping track of characters, so that you know what's happening.
		Note that the spelling of Oroonoko is not the same as that of the river in Venezuala.
		As Oroonoko prepares to board the ship, how would Oroonoko describe his relationship with the commander in terms of social standing?
	english.sxu.edu /boyer/201_rdg_qsts/oroonoko_n7_qst.htm (1294 words)

	Amazon.com: Oroonoko (Norton Critical Editions): Books: Aphra Behn,Joanna Lipking (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OROONOKO is the story of a Coromantien (Ghanaian) prince who, through his courage, integrity and physical beauty, wins the respect of virtually everyone with whom he comes into contact, including the prisoners he takes in battle and sells into slavery and the white slave traders who eventually take Oroonoko captive.
		Oroonoko finds and marries a beautiful Coromantien girl who had previously been sold into slavery.
		Unfortunately, all of the slaves except Oroonoko, his wife and one friend surrender immediately once their owners come after them.
	www.amazon.com /Oroonoko-Norton-Critical-Editions-Aphra/dp/0393970140 (1369 words)

	Study Questions--Behn's Oroonoko
		Oroonoko precedes the genre we think of as the novel and so includes characteristics of many literary types that no longer exist, but which contributed to the novel's characteristics.
		Such people are often compared to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the Fall.
		Oroonoko describes three sets of peoples--white Europeans, Amerindians in Brazil, and Africans, both free and enslaved.
	www.nku.edu /~rkdrury/study_questions_oroonoko.html (317 words)

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