e claims to be concerned only with "relating the truth" and intends not to "adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him." She adds that her allegedly true account "shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues, there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention" (1867). In other words, so she claims, the story will be a straightforward and accurate account of what happened in the life of the "Royal Slave," without anything added and without anything imagined.
Of course, the reader must be aware that every account of every event is colored, shaped, edited and interpreted by the teller. Behn may believe that she is presenting the facts and nothing ut the facts, but another teller of the same story---from a Eurocenrtic perspective, for e
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