OROONOKO THEORIES

Question 1

ANDRADE (1994)

Answer 1

INTRO

Some critics have celebrated the fact that Behn’s novella gives voice to dispossessed African slaves

Question 2

BELINDA WEBB (2007)

Answer 2

INTRO

The Guardian - Oroonoko as “a call to abolish slavery”.

Question 3

WEKKER (1982)

Answer 3

INTRO

“unclear whether she had even visited the place in which the novella’s events are set”

Question 4

VUKVARICAK (2013)

Answer 4

PARA 2 - Race/Westernisation
Concept of slavery is arguably ‘romanticised’

PARA 3 - Inconsistent view of race
positive descriptions of Oroonoko and the negative portrayal of his status as a slave. This highlights an ‘inconsistency’ in how Behn presents Oroonoko

Question 5

SAID (1978)

Answer 5

PARA 2 - Race/Westernisation
The ‘Orient’, the persona the West constructs to describe the foreign people and lands of which were colonialised is “not an inert fact of nature”. “reality” for the West