Artikel
Competing conceptions : rhetorics of representation in Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko"
Verfasst von:
Pender, Patricia
in:
Wallingford:
2001
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457 - 471 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Pender, Patricia |
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| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines the gendered and racialised dimensions of Aphra Behn's rhetorics of representation. It argues that Behn's ambivalent deployment of colonial rhetoric, particularly the discourses of sexual and racial difference, provides an important context for understanding her text's negotiation of generic categories such as romance, realism and true history, and her narrator's professions of textual fidelity and authority. the "New World Woman" figures in this analysis as both a meta-critical abstraction against which Behn measures her text's achievement, and as a central character in the drama of the novel. The author compares the role played by Aphra Behn, as the white, educate, bourgeois narrator, with that played by Imoinda, Oroonoko's African bride and fellow slave in the Indian colony of surinam. Exploring the implicit struggel that is staged between the two women over the possibilities of reproducing Oroonoko, it is suggested that Behn pits her miscegenated and marketable text against the reproductive capacities of Imoinda's body | |
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