Artikel
Oroonoko in nineteenth-century Germany : race and gender in Luise Mühlbach's "Aphra Behn"
Verfasst von:
Martin, Judith E.
in:
German life and letters
Oxford [u.a.]:
2003
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313 - 326 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Martin, Judith E. |
| In: | German life and letters |
| Jahr: | 2003 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Many critics consider Aphra Behn's novella "Oroonoko", or the Royal Slave (1688) the first anti-slavery narrative. England's first professional woman writer, Behn left a literary legacy divided between recognition of "Oroonoko" by abolitionists and rejection of her reputation for indecency. In her novel "Aphra Behn" (1849), the German author Luise Mühlbach joins these disparate strands of Behn reception. She adapts Behn's slave story within the historical context of ninettenth-century abolitionism, and she reinterprets Behn's biography and controversial literary reputation, transforming Behn into a respectable femal literary predecessor. Mühlbach's texts asserts a specifically female authorial legitimacy and challenges male dominance in social relations and in literary culture... | |
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