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Assignment 3: MLA and WorldCat Author/Topic Search
WorldCat
returned several books related Aphra Behn, namely several
biographies, that I feel would prove to be useful for research
purposes. When I performed a simple search on the MLA
International Bibliography database for “Aphra Behn, Oroonoko,”
numerous results returned, though only a few entries were
available for online review and the majority would require
interlibrary loans. The entries I chose to cite below tend to
explore various themes found in Oroonoko, or offer
contemporary readings of gender, race, and/or agency in the
novel. Because Behn was a woman writer, I expected that these
areas of interest would be heavily investigated and recurrent in
my research findings. Derek Hughes’ article, “Race, Gender, and
Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko,” for
instance, investiages the intersection of race and gender in the
novel, while Vernon Dickson’s article, “Truth, Wonder, and
Exemplarity in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko” explores more
universal themes.
Bibliography
Anderson, Emily
Hodgson. “Novelty in Novels: A Look at What’s New in
Aphra
Behn’s Oroonoko.” Studies in the Novel 39.1
(Spring 2007): 1-
16.
Bates, Robin R.
“Using Oroonoko to Teach the Corrosive Effects of
Racism.”
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and
Enquiries 3.1-2 (2006): 157-68.
Dickson, Vernon
Guy. “Truth, Wonder, and Exemplarity in Aphra Behn’s
Oroonoko.” Studies In English Literature, 1500-1900
47.3 (Summer
2007):
573-94.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo.
“‘Where There Is No Novelty, There Can Be No
Curiosity’: Reading Imoinda’s Body in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
or,
the Royal
Slave.” English in Africa 28.1 (May 2001): 105-17.
Holmesland, Oddvar.
“Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Cultural Dialects and the
Novel.”
ELH 68.1 (Spring 2001): 57-79.
Hughes, Derek.
“Race, Gender, and Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn’s
Oroonoko.” Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of
Literary
Criticism 52.1 (January 2002): 1-22.
Hutner, Heidi.
Rereading Aphra Behn. Charlottesville, UP of Virginia,
1993.
Link, Frederick.
Aphra Behn. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968.
**Even though this book was written in 1968, I included it
because
another author cited here offers a contemporary reading
of the
biography.
Martin, Judith E. “Oroonoko
in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Race and
Gender in
Luise Mühlbach’s Aphra Behn.” German Life and Letters
56.4
(October 2003): 313-26.
Northrop, Douglas
A. “The Role of the Narrator in Aphra Behn’s
Oroonoko.” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Northern
Plains
Conference on Earlier British Literature. Ed. Robert J.
DeSmith.
Sioux
Center, IA: Dordt College, 2001. 15-22.
Ortiz, Joseph M.
“Arms and the Woman: Narrative, Imperialism, and
Virgilian
Memoria in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.” Studies in the
Novel
34.2
(Summer 2002): 119-40.
Pacheco, Anita.
“Royalism and Honor in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.”
Studies
in
English Literature, 1500-1900 34.3 (Summer 1994): 491-506.
Paxman, David.
“Oral and Literate Discourse in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.”
Restoration Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700
18.2 (Fall
1994):
88-103.
Pender, Patricia.
“Competing Conceptions: Rhetorics of Representations in
Aphra
Behn’s Oroonoko.” Women’s Writing 8.3 (2001):
457-71.
Pigg, Daniel.
“Trying to Frame the Unframable: Oroonoko as Discourse in
Aphra
Behn’s Oroonoko.” Studies in Short Fiction 34.1
(Winter
1997):
105-11.
Rivero, Albert J.
“Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and the ‘Blank Spaces’ of
Colonial
Fictions.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39.3
(Summer
1994): 443-62.
Sills, Adam.
“Surveying ‘The Map of Slavery’ in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.”
Journal of Narrative Theory 36.3 (Fall 2006): 314-40.
Skinner, John. “The
Novel Element in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.” Textus:
English
Studies in Italy 16.2 (July-Dec 2003): 169-86.
Spencer, Jane.
Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Spencer, Jane.
“Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Women‘s Literary Authority.”
Early
Women Writers: 1600-1720. Ed. Anita Pacheco. London:
Longman,
1998. 183-96.
Williams, Andrew P.
“The African as Text: Ownership and Authority in
Aphra
Behn’s Oroonoko.” Journal of African Travel Writing
5
(1998):
5-14.
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