SOURCE: "Usurpation and Dismemberment: Oedipal Tyranny in Oroonoko" in Literature and Psychology, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, 1986, pp. 30–6.
In the following essay, Houston discusses the construction of the text and some thematic contradictions inherent within Oroonoko.
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