The best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely considered the first
professional woman writer in England, Oroonoko is an important
contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it
predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it
is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of
slavery: Oroonoko tells of a noble African prince enslaved and
taken to Surinam, where he leads a violent revolt of the enslaved.
When the revolt fails, circumstances force him to kill his wife,
the beautiful Imoinda, before he is himself executed, dying with
honor. This edition is accompanied by an informative introduction
and contextual materials situating Oroonoko in the context of
seventeenth-century slavery and the colonization of Surinam.
Contextual materials also address the early reception of Oroonoko,
including Thomas Southerne's popular stage adaptation of the
narrative.
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