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Biswas, Banani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper involves a study on Aphra Ben's "Oroonoko" (1688) which is considered by many as the first black narrative of English literature, an abolitionist text, while observed by some others as extremely colonialist. The objective of this study is to examine why the novella accommodates such contradictory readings. It assumes that it…
Descriptors: Blacks, English Literature, Novels, Sociocultural Patterns