Oroonoko

• Oroonoko, published in 1688
• Oroonoko, Imoinda is “The Queen of the Night"
• Imoinda: “She disarms me with that modesty and weeping so tender, so moving” (Tefry on why he didn’t rape her)
• Imoinda: Oroonoko’s rape of her means that he owns her - “ravishing"
• Oroonoko: “He, with a hand resolved, and a heart breaking within, gave the fatal stroke; first cutting her Throat, and then serving her yet smiling, face from that Delicate body, pregnant as it was with fruits of tend’rest love"
• Oroonoko: “I hope, the reputation of my pen is considerable enough to make his glorious name to survive all Ages; with that of the Brave, the beautiful and the constant Imoinda"
• Pumla Gqola, 2001: Imoinda is the “nexus of sexual repression and racial domination"
• Pumla Gqola, 2001: “as vicious shrewd, sexual and a rebel with the undercurrent of African savage"
• Pumla Gqola, 2001: she is “siding with slavery"