Oroonoko Website Links

http://www.nndb.com/people/095/000031999/

A short bio of Aphra Behn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oroonoko

Behn, Oroonoko, and Slavery.

http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=oroonoko+summary

More links to Oroonoko.

http://www.engl.niu.edu/kwezner/Kelley%20Wezner/Dead%20Girls%20Do%20It%20Better.pdf#search='reading%20oroonoko'

Scholarly essay on Oroonoko.

http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/begin-ab.htm

A more comprehensive Behn link

http:/www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-18-2006-91399.asp

Themes of Oroonoko

                                                                    Critical Sources

Ed. Phillips, John Edward, Miura Toru.  Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa:  A Comparative Study.  Kegan Paul International.  London, UK.  2000.

This book talks about slave languages, culture, and way of life in the Mid East and Africa.

 

Spencer, Jane.  The Rise of the Woman Novelist.  Basil Blackwell Inc.  New York, NY.  1986.

Contains information about early woman writers and their attitudes towards writing.

 

Ed. Summers, M.  Oroonoko and other prose narratives by Aphra Behn..  Benjamin Dlom.  New York, NY.  1967..

Contains the works of Aphra Behn, including Oroonoko and other stories such as The Fair Jilt and The Adventure of the Black Lady.

 

Thornton, John.  Africa and Africans.  Cambridge University Press, USA.  1992.

This book contains information regarding Africans' help of developing the New World.

 

Woodcock, George.  The Incomparable Aphra.  Staples Press Limited.  England, 1948.

Talks about the influence of Aphra Behn in the literary world.  It explains what her work represented, and her place as a wrtier.