Oroonokos' Rape Cultures

This essay investigates the recurrence of rape and its deployment in Aphra Behn's and Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko s. It seeks to expose how iterative representations of Imoinda provide new possibilities for understanding how sexual violence contributes to formations of race and gender in the period. " Oroonoko s' rape cultures" identifies how the telling and retelling of Oroonoko depicts rape culture as a transnational reality through which sexual violence against enslaved women is normalized, fetishized, and demanded. This essay's comparative approach magnifies Imoinda's vexed positions in both Coromantien and Suriname to address ongoing concerns about rape's simultaneously quotidian and spectacular nature

Aphra · Key (lock) · Narrative · Race (biology) · Sexual violence · Software deployment · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade