Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko / edited by Cynthia Richards and Mary Ann O'Donnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richards, Cynthia, editor.

O'Donnell, Mary Ann, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko.

Behn, Aphra.

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689--Study and teaching.

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.

Physical Description:

xv, 227 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2014.

Summary:

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials/' provides not only resources for the teacher of Oroonoko but also a brief chronology of Behn's life and work. In part 2, "Approaches," essays offer a diversity of perspectives appropriate to a text that challenges student assumptions and contains not one story but many: Oroonoko as a romance, as a travel account, as a heroic tragedy, as a window to seventeenth-century representations of race, as a reflection of Tory-Whig conflict in the time of Charles II. Book jacket.

Contents:

What kind of story is this?

Credibility and truth in Oroonoko

Oroonoko: romance to novel

The language of Oroonoko

Oroonoko and the heroics of virtue

Oroonoko and blackness

Economic Oroonoko

The traffic of women: Oroonoko in an Atlantic framework

Entering Atlantic history: Oroonoko, revolution, and race

Writing war in Oroonoko

Oroonoko as a Caribbean text

How big did she say that snake was? Teaching the contradiction in Oroonoko

Teaching Oroonoko in a literature survey 1 course

Teaching Oroonoko in a literature survey 2 course

Teaching Oroonoko in the travel narrative course

Teaching Oroonoko at a historically Black university

Teaching the teachers: Oroonoko as a lesson

Oroonoko's cosmopolitans

Teaching Oroonoko with Milton and Dryden; or, Behn's use of the heroic

Teaching Oroonoko with early modern drama

Unbearable theater: Oroonoko's sentimental afterlife

Two Oroonokos: Behn's and Bandele's

Representation of race, status, and slavery in Behn's Oroonoko and Equiano's Interesting Narrative

The early modern body in Behn's poetry and Oroonoko

Oroonoko and the problem of teaching novelty

Transatlatnic crossing: teaching Oroonoko with The Widdow Ranter

Behn and the canon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603291279

160329127X

9781603291286

1603291288

OCLC:

857370280