What’s fascinating about Oroonoko and “The Interesting Narrative” is that they both follow slave narratives, but the authors are polar opposites. Aphra Behn was a white woman with no expertise whatsoever (as far as we know), and Equiano is supposedly telling his own story, though historians debate the validity of that claim. Both claim that … Continue reading Comparing and Contrasting Oroonoko and “The Interesting Narrative”