2015
DOI: 10.24093/awej/vol6no3.12
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“I could right what had been made wrong”: Laila Lalami’s appropriation of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Abstract: This paper investigates Arab American novelist Laila Lalami (b. 1968)'s rewriting of Álvar Núňez Cabeza de Vaca's La Relacíon, a travelogue that chronicles Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narváez (1470-1528)'s expedition to claim La Florida to the Spanish crown in the sixteenth century. Lalami's The Moor's Account (2014) is a historical novel narrated by Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdulssalam al-Zamori, a Moroccan slave known in Spanish annals as Estevanico/Estebanico, who was one of four survivors of the Narváe… Show more

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