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Dominique, Lyndon J. Imoinda’s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature 1759-1808. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
This work explores the literary figure of Imoinda from Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave (1688) and Thomas Southerne’s 1696 adaptation, Oroonoko. Dominique argues that Imoinda and fictional African women in literary texts from 1759-1808 demonstrate a political moment when British writers are thinking about rebellion, antislavery rhetoric, and abolitionism. This text participates in conversations on the transatlantic slave trade, race, and gender.
