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laurensalisbury 's review for:
Oroonoko
by Aphra Behn
Hmm... Yea. I read this 'novel' for my British Literature class this semester. If you are not in a class to properly analyze it, the meanings kind of fall by the wayside. Unfortunately a lot of the substance that readers claim to find in this work are actually manufactured by our own assumptions about what Aphra Behn was writing about. In reality this is nothing more than a way to make money and feign a bit of anti-slavery mumbo jumbo while selling books. Her prose is clunky and confusing. She seems more concerned with her own egoism throughout than with the events that are unfolding, extremely grotesquely, regarding Oroonoko and Imoinda. If you must read it, read it for the conclusion and violently gory plot. The love triangle is extremely humorous and the execution is absolutely disgusting. Skim reading might be the best technique for this one. 3 stars.