Women's Literature 15 Aphra Behn
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that word But that is the wear it Hey what
about of them A savages But instead orinoco is regal
and principled and brave Yeah smart it's In fact the
people are enslaving him who are in the wrong total
upending of values there In fact the ending is what's
really savage right He's dismembered Smoking a pipe is like
a very disturbing scene at the end This idea that
like actually this grand royalty can be found in different
races in different places in order to get this point
across One thing that's really interesting is that after bain
frames this as a true story It's based on some
of her true experiences but it's not strictly true And
yet she says that it that's really interesting as well
because it not only positions This is a true story
But i think it's positions after bain has very much
in conversation with male Writers of our time the frame
narrative was such a common device in this period insisting
to people that fictional narratives were true that's when you
did you're a writer and she's also applying the travel
writing was so hip at the time and you're doing
travel right and again it was mostly men right Of
course because men were the ones that had the right
to kind of traits around europe and asia Africa i'm
collecting stories and bring back all the like exotic things
they found so it's meaningful that she's a starting herself
as a woman of the world Who's had experience who's
been to suriname I think they never really you're critical
consensus about whether she was even there Like her biography
is super fuzzy because she's fictionalized it But she uses
what she claimed for her real experience Yeah and we
know for a fact that she was sent to antwerp
is a spy by king I mean she definitely wass
she had a super exciting life and choose very brilliant
with like some strange unusual goings on difficult situation She
doesn't usually write novels or novellas right She's known as
a playwright you know This is in the sixteen hundreds
right We think of like shakespeare the very end of
the sixteenth century the beauty of the seventeenth century So
she is coming into her own with restoration drama which
is what's Succeeding the kind of shakespearean era and is
very popular on the stage is making her own living
getting herself out of debt writing plays for the stage
that actually being pretty successful What's orinoco about what's a
frame narrative Why does ben say our new Who is
a true story It's A true story on ly the 00:03:03.24 --> [endTime] names events and locations were changed