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Oroonoko

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Oroonoko
the noble savage enslaved; rebels against captors. [Br. Lit.: Oroonoko]


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Although my students remained reluctant to admit the cultural assumptions that informed Watt's approach, they conceded that the idea of a controlling moral intention later allowed them to distinguish differences between Oroonoko and Robinson Crusoe more clearly.
This strategy, which gives special weight to the word Texts in her title, allows MacDonald to deploy the concept of erasure with startling precision as, for example, when she traces the literal transformation of Imoinda from black in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko to white in subsequent versions.
Gambia in Thomas Morton's The Slave, Oroonoko in stage adaptations of Aphra Behn's eponymous novel, and Christophe in J.
 
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