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Oroonoko the royal slave6/21/2023 Despite the fact that Oroonoko and Imoinda are married, the King forces her to become part of his Otan, or harem, separating them. However, their love is thwarted by Oroonoko’s grandfather, the king, who desires Imoinda for himself. Oroonoko’s tale is one of an exemplary man who falls in love with an exceptional woman, Imoinda. Oroonoko’s story is related to us by a nameless female narrator (possibly Aphra Behn herself), the daughter of the Lord Governor of Surinam, an English colony where Oroonoko will find himself a slave. It is a seventeenth-century novella that tells the story of the eponymous hero, the prince and heir to the throne of the African country of Cormantien. "Oroonoko" ( or, the Royal Slave) is an early example of the novel genre, written by Aphra Behn and published in 1688.
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