Oroonoko

The position of the narrator is ambiguous when she talks about slavery
The description of Oroonoko is made using dichotomy. She is white so she used white description but also she is part of themargin because she is woman and is in a subordinate position because the major are men in the plantation.
Because he is the hero he is constructed with western characteristics. Even his skin color islighter than the others that make the presentation of the hero really ambiguous. He is handsome but he is black. This is part of the colonial discourse (negatives features to black, good features towhites) the fact that he is educated and that speaks English and French makes.
 Frantz Fanon (theorist) he made difference between race and ethnicity.
Race is related with body. It is obvious to theeye
Ethnicity is has to do with identity, religion, backgrounds. It is not shown.
Novel savage: the idealization of the other. They are the killers without feeling or the intelligent and the onesrelated with nature.
- Oroonoko he is very moral during the entire novel until the end. He is very simplified physical but moral and spiritual at all levels.
- Oroonoko’s behavior is not associatedwith a hero, because he has a feminine attitude. This is because he is emasculated (he is not treated as masculine). This emasculation makes with unable to fight at the end of the novel, when he islooking for revenge.
Imoinda  she is also idealized. Her beauty resembles God. She is extremely beautiful and capable of love. Imoinda’s virginity is ambiguous because the reader doesn’t know when andwhit who has she lost it. He must bear in mind that there is a lot of value in woman’s virginity all through the text.
The issue of naming: they changed the name for Caesar that was a Europeanemperor. When she calls him Caesar she is participant in the white. Naming is one of the most important strategies is naming or renaming the places. They are the colonizing. The person who name has more...