Oroonoko

Auteurs

• Aphra Behn

Paramètres

• 78 pages
• 3 heures de lecture

• Aventure
• Fiction
• Fiction historique
• Littérature mondiale
• Romans d'aventures

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An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince. The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tale depicts the overthrow of a hero by a civilization that considers itself superior to him. Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 1997