description: Including the full text of Aphra Behn's novella Oroonoko , this volume explores its global historical context through a number of literary, philosophical, and historical texts designed to place the work in a literary history as well as a relational history of the three regions the story West Africa, The Caribbean, and England. Documents from each corner of the "Triangular Trade," such as slave trader correspondence, travel accounts from Surinam, and legal decisions concerning slavery in England, combine to add to the richness of this earliest literary narrative written in English about an American colony. Gallagher is an English literature professor at the U. of California, Berkeley. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Oroonoko
titlecomplete: Oroonoko (Bedford Cultural Edition)
characters: Oroonoko, Imoinda
genres: 17th Century, Read For School, Africa, Historical, School, Novels, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 14084
places: Suriname
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan