Premium Content “Contrary to the custom of his country…” : Gender and Values in Oroonoko
By Jessica Rae Waggoner - January 24, 2007
Aphra Behn’s genre-blending tale Oroonoko melds travel narrative with fictional biography to tell the story of Prince Oroonoko, “the royal slave.” Although Behn writes of Oroonoko’s honor as unique among men, her admiration for him seems to derive directly from how closely he mirrors the prime model of a nobly descended, Christian Englander…
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