“Hanout of the 1776 performance of Oroonoko,” by unknown artist, 1776. Wikimedia Commons. Introduction by E Ching Ryan Leung, Hyeyoung Ku   First published in 1688, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is one of the earliest English novels and has been lauded as “the first humanitarian novel in English” (Cross 20). Though classified as a novel, some … Continue reading Aphra Behn: Oroonoko