Oroonoko

副标题: Or, the Royal Slave

ISBN: 9780393312058

出版社: W. W. Norton & Company

出版年: 1997-05

页数: 96

定价: USD 9.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.