SOURCE: "Fact and Fiction in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko" in Studies in the Novel, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 1–15.
In the essay below, Rogers argues that Oroonoko is a creative treatment of facts derived from Behn's personal experiences.
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