The Visceral Novel Reader: Employment in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

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Focusing on Paul Ricoeur’s idea of emplotment, my paper interprets Behn’s Oroonoko arguing that the plot cues readers to be moved by the hero’s body and thus foregrounds West African resistance against colonial violence.
Period2023 Dec 13
Event titleEnglish Literature Research Seminar HT 2023/24
Event typeSeminar
LocationLund, SwedenShow on map

Free keywords

  • Aphra Behn
  • Realist novel
  • seventeenth-century
  • body movement
  • employment
  • Paul Ricoeur
  • hermeneutical phenomenology
  • enslavement narrative
  • resistance

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