Oroonoko online5/21/2023 FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: SEGNI DEL TEMPO ALLA COPERTINA, BRUNITURE AI TAGLI, PER IL RESTO INTONSO, MAI SFOGLIATO. Aphra Behn Oroonoko Lo schiavo reale a cura di Annamaria Lamarra con un saggio di Guido Almansi e Claude Béguin Guida 1986 119 PP. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.īrossura. Inspired by Aphra Behnas visit to Surinam, 'Oroonoko' reflects the authoras romantic views of native peoples as being in athe first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.a The novel also reveals Behnas ambiguous attitude toward slavery: while she favored it as a means to strengthen Englandas power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality. Oroonokoas noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. When Prince Oroonokoas 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. There follows a dramatic tale of revolt, betrayal and revenge in which the lovers pay the ultimate price for their beliefs. Aphra Behn's memories of her own visit to Surinam in 1663 provide a vivid background to the story in which Prince Oroonoko and the woman he loves are cast into slavery by his jealous grandfather. Oroonoko, a novel published in 1688, is notable as an early protest against the slave trade and as a description of primitive people 'in the first state of innocence'.
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