The Passion of <i>Oroonoko</i>: Passive Obedience, The Royal Slave, and Aphra Behn's Baroque Realism
2012; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 79; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/elh.2012.0014
ISSN1080-6547
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture studies
ResumoThe Passion of Oroonoko situatues Aphra Behn's novella Oroonoko (1689) within the context of debates about passive obedience and political obligation during the Revolution of 1688-9. It argues that Oroonoko leverages residual theories and forms of representing human action (baroque allegory, romance, patriarchal theories of obligation) against emergent ones (realism, novels, individuality) ultimately demonstrating that the natural fact (or natural law) of human passivity inevitability prevails.
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