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When Prince Oroonokos 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. Oroonokos noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behns visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the authors romantic views of native peoples as being in the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin. The novel also reveals Behns ambiguous attitude toward slavery: while she favored it as a means to strengthen Englands power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
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好雷…..从头雷到尾
在今天拿回写power&freedom的paper 很开心自己如此认真研读过这本novella
作者真的别太厌女
The Postcolonial Turn
与其说叙述者/作者在赞美African black Oroonoko在soul和body两方面的卓越不凡以及南美洲native Indians的purity，不如说是借此来赞美自己的文化——欧洲白人文化：1. Oroonoko的cultivation来自于法国tutor以及与英国人西班牙人等贸易往来时的交往；2.对南美洲印第安人的赞美（亚当与夏娃）和对Oroonoko外貌（罗马鼻子等）和灵魂（比做罗马神话中的Mars等）均使用欧洲白人文化的经典意象。Oroonoko实际上是被欧洲白人文化改造过的。他们完美是因为他们像“我们”（欧洲白人）。前面1/3或许是宫斗戏鼻祖？后宫争宠算计，安插眼线，美人计等等元素一个不落。无论是人物语言还是肢体动作描写均很夸张，像极了舞台剧，老师说这是戏仿复辟时代喜剧
救命，这就是宫斗戏/后宫戏鼻祖嘛（什么）强抢民女的老国王，被宫墙分割的爱情，泡妃嫔的男子（想看那位妃嫔和男子的个人故事，感觉会比主线好玩）以及最后的酷刑还是震惊到我了；Literature and Human Rights课必读，很期待周四对于人权的探讨
白人女作家的honored slave，honor也是塑料。要是小说的兴起是女作家这样的female subject的兴起的话，那小说的兴起和种族与肤色也有密切的关系【这就是我最近吐血的论文的thesis不知道萌萌哒的wcm会如何评价23333
“His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat. ”
Unnervingly ignorant and provokingly condescending. 情节离奇甚至离谱，视角集结女性的天真与白人的伪善，对他者的欣赏限于与自己族类相容的地方，唯有最后十页Oroonoko身上展现出一种Achilles赴死前一般的残忍的魅力。
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