Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth CenturyDerek Hughes Cambridge University Press, 2007 M07 16 Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of three major British seventeenth-century works concerned with race and colonialism: Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), Behn's Abdelazer (1676), and Thomas Southerne's tragedy Oroonoko (1696). It combines these with a rich anthology of European discussions of slavery, racial difference, and colonial conquest from the mid-sixteenth century to the time of Behn's death. Many are taken from important works that have not hitherto been easily available, and the collection offers an unrivaled resource for studying the culture that produced Britain's first major fictions of slavery. |
Contenido
Sección 13 | 300 |
Sección 14 | 307 |
Sección 15 | 316 |
Sección 16 | 322 |
Sección 17 | 331 |
Sección 18 | 339 |
Sección 19 | 344 |
Sección 20 | 349 |
Sección 9 | 277 |
Sección 10 | 285 |
Sección 11 | 287 |
Sección 12 | 295 |
Sección 21 | 353 |
Sección 22 | 360 |
Sección 23 | 361 |
Sección 24 | 368 |
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Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century Derek Hughes Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century Derek Hughes Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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Página 363 - Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with it, and joyned to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property.
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