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Oroonoko
by Aphra Behn
The story is beautiful all over, and I'm addressing this piece as fiction despite all Aphra Behn's swearings that they were all true. The (not-so) funny part is how all those people were being racists even before the word 'racist' was invented. Oroonoko is physically described so that he is closer to a white person than to his native race, he's being "beautified" by being added white features: "His face was not of brown rusty black which most of that nation are, but of perfect ebony... His nose was rising and Roman (?), instead of African and flat. His mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great turned lips which are so natural to the rest of the negroes." Our hero is not only the other for the white folk, he is also being made a stranger in this own tribe.
That ending though. That ending.
That ending though. That ending.