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Ballaster, Ros, “New Hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Body, the Text and the Feminist Critic,” in New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts, ed. Isobel Armstrong (London: Routledge, 1992), 283–95.
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Gallagher, Catherine, “Oroonoko's Blackness,” in Aphra Behn Studies, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 235–58, reprinted in Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670–1820 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 49–87.
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