SOURCE: "The Author-Monarch and the Royal Slave: Oroonoko and the Blackness of Representation," in Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670–1820, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 49–87.
In the excerpt below, Gallagher discusses the meaning of blackness in relation to European society in Oroonoko.
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