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Title Troping Oroonoko from Behn to Bandele / edited by Susan B. Iwanisziw
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm; 2 Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; 3 'The Fair Imoinda': Domestic Ideology and Anti-Slavery on the Eighteenth-Century Stage; 4 Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure in Oroonoko; 5 Owning Oroonoko: Behn, Southerne, and the Contingencies of Property; 6 Reproducing Oroonoko: A Case Study in Plagiarism, Textual Parallelism, and Creative Borrowing
7 The Eighteenth-Century Marketing of Oroonoko: Contending Constructions of Maecenas, the Author and the Slave8 Reviving Oroonoko 'in the scene': From Thomas Southerne to 'Biyi Bandele; Index
Notes Originally published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 01, 2018)
Subject Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Influence
SUBJECT Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 fast
Oroonoko (Behn, Aphra) fast
Subject Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Slave trade in literature.
Princes in literature.
Slavery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature
Literature -- Adaptations
Literature and society
Princes in literature
Slave trade in literature
Slavery in literature
SUBJECT Suriname -- In literature
Africa -- In literature
Subject Africa
Great Britain
Suriname
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Iwanisziw, Susan B., 1951- editor.
ISBN 9781351143981
1351143980