Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument for a Presentist Approach to Teaching Aphra Behn's <i>Oroonoko</i>
This essay outlines a presentist approach to teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688), in which a white woman witnesses a Black man’s brutal execution at the hands of enslavers. This approach explores the capacity of Behn’s novel—a colonialist narrative scholars frequently identify as troubling or frus...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Langue: | Inglês |
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Aphra Behn Society
2023-06-01
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| Collection: | ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 |
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| Accès en ligne: | https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol13/iss1/8 |
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