The third chapter deals with the theme of resistance and subversive strategies that the captives adopt against their masters in order to preserve their culture that is threatened by the encounter with the Other. The second chapter is about the effects of captivity on the captives’ identity, culture and religion in both narratives. The first one deals with the representation of the issue of captivity and slavery in Oroonoko and in The Noble Slaves. This work consists of three main chapters. To achieve our aim, we have relied on New Historicist principles and Michel Foucault’s concepts of power and domination that insist on the importance of the interpretation of literary works in relation to their historical context. It aims to argue that captivity has a great effect on the captive’s identity, religion and culture. A True History (1688) and Penelope Aubin's The Noble Slaves (1772). This dissertation intends to study how the issue of captivity exposes identity both religious and cultural to the threat of the Other in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave.
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