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The best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely considered the first professional woman writer in England, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery.
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- Title
- Oroonoko
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Aphra Behn
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- ISBN10
- 0241251621
- ISBN13
- 9780241251621
- Category
- World prose
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- The best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely considered the first professional woman writer in England, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery.